I hardened my heart against all the Bennets. - Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy.

Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.

Honest men cannot be expected to anticipate the actions of scoundrels.

When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over more pages than I read.

Elizabeth’s tears had wrung my heart: I longed to enfold her in my arms, to comfort her, but I knewit would be infamous indeed to take such advantage of her distress.

The problem with arguments is that it never adds up to any value to the subject.

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken that slumbering Progress.

Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.

Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.

For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips.

It's amazing how beauty can mask so many flaws