... silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

To be always firm must be to be often obstinate. When properly to relax is the trial of judgment.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

A loss may be sometimes a gain.

Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull, or the jackonet. Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Once so much to each other!
Now nothing!

There are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby.

You shall find me as stubborn as you can be artful.

It is more difficult to speak well than to compose well.