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

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.