Mr. Darcy

• "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment."
• "Towards him I have been kinder than towards myself."
• "this adventure has rather affected your admiration of her...Not at all, he replied; they were brightened by the exercise."
• "You have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking; if the first, I should be completely in your way; and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire."

Elizabeth Bennet

• "You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger, security for happiness."
• "You were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."
• "One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it."

Charlotte Lucas

• "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance...and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."

Mrs. Bennet"

• "you had better go on horseback, because it seems likely to rain; and then you must stay all night."

Mr. Knightley

• "If I loved you less I might be able to talk about it more."
• "Badly done Emma, badly done"
• "Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does."
• "You are more likely to have done harm to yourself, than good to them, by interference."

Emma

• "A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it."
• "if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly."
• "I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry…Fortune I do not want; employment I do not want; consequence I do not want to get marry."
• "Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of."
• "silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
• "The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, "Men never know when things are dirty or not;" and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, "Women will have their little nonsenses and needless cares."
• "Let his behaviour be the guide of your sensations."