“If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.”

“Catherine- "How I hate the sight of an umbrella!"Mrs. Allen- "They are disagreeable things to carry. I would much rather take a chair at any time.”

“If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”

“Oh! to be sure," cried Emma, "it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.”

“The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy”

“I have observed, Mrs Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”

“for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.”