“I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses! Oh Lord! There is not getting away from one's self”

“A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.”

“I think it ought not to be set down as certain, that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.”

“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”

“Oh! not handsome—not at all handsome. I thought him very plain at first, but I do not think him so plain now. One does not, you know, after a time.”

“Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor...”

“My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”