If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

I understand Crawford paid you a visit?" "Yes." "And was he attentive?" "Yes, very." "And has your heart changed towards him?" "Yes. Several times. I have - I find that I - I find that-" "Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.... I missed you." "And I you.

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.