“A man who had felt less, might.”

“…it was rather because she felt less happy than she had expected.  She laughed because she was disappointed…”

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

“Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.”

“The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do.”

“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)”

“She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.”