His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies." Mr. Darcy: "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.