You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

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