It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.