At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.
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.
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.
Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!
If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.
With a book he was regardless of time.
I am all astonishment.
Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.
You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.
I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.
I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.
The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart.
We neither of us perform to strangers.
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
Heaven forbid! – That would be the greatest misfortune of all! – To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! – Do not wish me such an evil.
I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love.
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other’s ultimate comfort.