Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. |
He [Darcy] expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man in violent love can be supposed to. |
He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. |
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle. |
How can you contrive to write so even? |
How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. |
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! |
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. |
I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun |
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible |
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. |
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them. |
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them. |
I don't know what I'd do without you guys. |
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. |