“Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.”

“Aye, a very bad business indeed. A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking his mistress's head, is not it, Miss Elliot? This is breaking a head and giving a plaister truly!”

“This is an evening of wonders, indeed!”

“The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!”

“Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.”

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”

“Indeed how can one care for those one has never seen?”