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.

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.