But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.

Is not poetry the food of love?

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?