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.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.