But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.