“I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certain silly things cease to be silly if done by sensible people in an imprudent way.”

“Certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

“If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it.”

“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.”

“Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!”

“Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.”