“ In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
— Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
“ You wish to think all the world respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of anybody. I only want to think you perfect, and yet you set yourself against it. Do not be afraid of my running into any excess, of my encroaching on your privilege of universal goodwill. You need not. There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.
— Elizabeth Bennet, Pride And Prejudice
