“Perfection should not have come quite so soon.”

“As he quitted the room, Elizabeth felt how improbable it was that they should ever see each other again on such terms of cordiality... and as she threw a retrospective glance over the whole of their acquaintance, so full of contradictions and varieties, sighed at the perverseness of those feelings which would now have promoted its continuance, and would formerly have rejoiced in its termination.”

“I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be any more”

“It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.”

“for I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value is our estimation.”

“If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.”

“I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.”