“An artist cannot do anything slovenly.”

“But do not be cast down. Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret”

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”

“Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”

“Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.”

“We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.”

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”