"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."

"Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain."

"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."

"Without music, life would be a blank to me."

"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"

"Elizabeth's spirit's soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. 'How could you begin?' said she. begun."

"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."

"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all."

"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings."

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

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

"And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading."

"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."

"Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain."

"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."

"Without music, life would be a blank to me."

"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."