I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

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

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.