It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.