I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.