Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.