I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

I should infinitely prefer a book.