Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
From politics it was an easy step to silence.
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.
But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.
I love you. Most ardently.
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.
People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.
A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.
How can you contrive to write so even?
The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.
I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.