“If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”

“Of music! Then pray speak aloud. It is of all subjects my delight. I must have my share in the conversation if you are speaking of music. There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”

“If you are speaking of music...it is of all subjects my delight. There are few people in England I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. And so would Anne, if her health would have allowed her to apply. I am confident that she would have performed delightfully. - Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice”

“I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…”

“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”

“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”