Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.