It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.

Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

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

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.