“Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some”

“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.-Mr. Darcy”

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

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

“Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?"Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.”

“Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.”

“And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.”