There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

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.