“I am heartily ashamed of myself, Lizzy. But don't despair, it'll pass; and no doubt more quickly than it should.”

“they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.”

“I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more”

“She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

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

“I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.”

“I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be any more”