The ability to quote is a passable substitute for wit.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
I am not yet young enough to know everything.
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.—Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
I can resist everything except temptation.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.