You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?