“The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it.”

“I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.”

“I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.”

“The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.”

“But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.”

“I am a foe to tyrants, and my country’s friend.”

“Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.”