“for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.”

“He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.”

“Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.”

“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”

“Catherine- "How I hate the sight of an umbrella!"Mrs. Allen- "They are disagreeable things to carry. I would much rather take a chair at any time.”

“The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they often employ is only to be equalled by the folly of what they have in view.”

“If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.”