“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if youdo.”

Between him and Darcy there was a very steady friendship, in spite of great opposition of character.

Miss Bennet he acknowledged to be pretty, but she smiled too much.

In nine cases out of ten a women had better show more affection than she feels.

Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty;

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him;

“Pride,” observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, “is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some

This gallantry was not much to the taste of some of his hearers;

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”