“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”

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

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

“I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.”

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”

“...the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.”

“Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.”