Pride and Prejudice

If you will thank me, he replied, “ let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on. I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of you.”

Elizabeth was too much embarrassed to say a word fter a short pause, her companion added, “You are too generous to trifle with me. 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.”

No one can be really accomplished, who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a through knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half deserved.

"All this she must possess," added Darcy, "and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading."

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark.

We can all begin freely-a slight preference is naturally enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

In nine out of ten, a woman had better shew more affection than she feels. Bingly likes your sister undoubtedly; but he may never do more than like her, if she does not help him on.

But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.