Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. I have loved none but you.

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

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

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

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

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.