it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

The less said the better.

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.