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

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.