Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

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

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

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