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.

It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.