«(…) and a sort of pleasure in the idea of their being coupled in their friends› imagination.»

«‹But still, you will be an old maid, and that’s so dreadful!'»

Volume One, Chapter 7

«She is loveliness itself. Mr. Knightley, is she not?»

«(…) almost past every thing but tea and quadrille.»

«(…) for when his wife died after a three years› marriage, he was rather a poorer man than at first,

«(…) one to whom she could speak every thought as it arose, and who had such an affection for her

«The danger, however, was at present so unperceived, that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her.»