To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.