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

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.