You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

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

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt