My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.