Pride and Prejudice |
. . . if you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them . . . |
. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all. |
. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them. |
'If it was not for the entail I should not mind it.' `What should not you mind?' `I should not mind anything at all.' `Let us be thankful that you are preserved from a state of such insensibility.' |
A basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin. |
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment |
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. |
A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow. |
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. |
A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else. |
A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. |
All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone. |
An annuity is a very serious business. |
An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome. |