“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.”

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”

“I fancy Miss Price has been more used to deserve praise than to hear it…”

“But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.”

“I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.”

“I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.”

“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”