Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.