Pride and Prejudice

"Let me not importune you further on the subject."

"Do not give way to useless alarm."

"I have always seen a great deal of sense in the young lady."

"Your defects are but in manners, and my good wishes are not lessened by them."

"Make yourself perfect; be perfectly lovely and I shall love you forever."

"I cannot forget the follies and absurdities of others."

"You have insulted me in every possible way."

"I have every reason in the world to think ill of you."

"Nothing is more desirable than an improvement in character."

"She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me."

"I have been blinded by prejudice against her."

"I could not do justice to her merit by words."

"The community is not very extensive, and when a woman chooses a husband, she chooses him for all his life."

"I am as happy as I ever saw her."

"It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion."

"Wickedness is always weakness."

"A man of consequence, I ought to be proud."

"I respect the right to refuse, but I must protest against it."

"My good opinion once lost, is lost forever."

"I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle."

"I could not have happily obey the dictates of my heart."

"You have bewitched me, body and soul."

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

"I am not one of those who are willing to trifle with that which is of vital importance."

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

"I shall bear witness to your conduct."

"The mind of a woman is not easily satisfied."

"I have nothing further to say to you on the matter."

"Let me see how happy I can make you."

"I could not be happy with a man whose sense of duty did not accord with my own."