"She was not often invited to join..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.”

“I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”

“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

“Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.”

“Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.”

“Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.”

“Fire is the most tolerable third party”

“For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help.”