1. 'Oh! - you mean Jane, I suppose - because he danced with her twice. To be sure that did seem as if he admired her - indeed I rather believe he did - I heard something about it - but I hardly know what - something about Mr Robinson'

2. 'Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!'

3. ''That is the most unforgiving speech,' said Elizabeth, 'that I ever heard you utter. Good girl!''

4. ''You may depend upon it, Madam,' said Miss Bingley, with cold civility, 'that Miss Bennet shall receive every possible attention while she remains with us''

5. 'One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty'

6. 'They knew that she had not prudence enough to hold her tongue before the servants, while they waited at table, and judged it better that one only of the household, and the one whom they could most trust, should comprehend all her fears and solicitude on the subject'

7. 'You shall not defend her, though it is Charlotte Lucas. You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavor to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger, security for happiness'

8. 'I have no pleasure in talking to undutiful children. - Not that I have much pleasure indeed in talking to any body. People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking. Nobody can tell what I suffer!'

9. 'She perfectly remembered every thing that had passed in conversation between Wickham and herself, in their first evening at Mr Philip's. Many of his expressions were still fresh in her memory. She was now struck with the impropriety of such communications to a stranger, and wondered that it had escaped her before. She saw the indelicacy of putting himself forward as he had done, and the inconsistency of his professions with his conduct'

10. 'But I can assure the young ladies that I come prepared to admire them. At present I will not say more, but perhaps when we are better acquainted -'