You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

What strange creatures brothers are!

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.