— “They have none of them much to recommend them,” replied he; “they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.”
— “Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way?
You take delight in vexing me.
You have no compassion for my poor nerves.”
— “You mistake me, my dear.
I have a high respect for your nerves.
They are my old friends.
I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.”
— “Ah! you do not know what I suffer.”
— “But I hope you will get over it, and live to see many young men of four thousand a-year come into the neighbourhood.”