“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“The whole story would have been speedily formed under her active imagination; and every thing established in the most melancholy order of disastrous love”

“It is only by seeing women in their own homes, among their own set, just as they always are, that you can form any just judgment. Short of that, it is all guess and luck—and will generally be ill-luck. How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and rued it all the rest of his life!”

“Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.”

“Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.”

“And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There hasbeen many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who firstdiscovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!""I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love," said Darcy.”