Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.
Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.
Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?
I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.
Success supposes endeavour.
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy.
Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.
We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.
There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.
She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.
It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.
Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.
She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.
I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.
And what am I to do on the occasion? – It seems an hopeless business.
I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.
You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.