Austen Said:

Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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“We are speaking of music, madam,”
“I assure you, madam,”
“that she does not need such advice. She practises very constantly.”
having promised to play to him;
“Pray let me hear what you have to accuse him of,”
“I should like to know how he behaves among strangers.”
“I can answer your question,”
“without applying to him. It is because he will not give himself the trouble.”
“I have been making the tour of the park,”
“as I generally do every year, and intend to close it with a call at the Parsonage. Are you going much farther?”
“Yes — if Darcy does not put it off again. But I am at his disposal. He arranges the business just as he pleases.”
“He likes to have his own way very well,”
“But so we all do. It is only that he has better means of having it than many others, because he is rich, and many others are poor. I speak feelingly. A younger son, you know, must be inured to self-denial and dependence.”
“These are home questions — and perhaps I cannot say that I have experienced many hardships of that nature. But in matters of greater weight, I may suffer from the want of money. Younger sons cannot marry where they like.”
“Our habits of expense make us too dependent, and there are not many in my rank of life who can afford to marry without some attention to money.”
“No,”
“that is an advantage which he must divide with me. I am joined with him in the guardianship of Miss Darcy.”
why she supposed Miss Darcy likely to give them any uneasiness,
“I know them a little. Their brother is a pleasant gentlemanlike man — he is a great friend of Darcy's.”
“Care of him! Yes, I really believe Darcy does take care of him in those points where he most wants care. From something that he told me in our journey hither, I have reason to think Bingley very much indebted to him. But I ought to beg his pardon, for I have no right to suppose that Bingley was the person meant. It was all conjecture.”
“It is a circumstance which Darcy of course could not wish to be generally known, because if it were to get round to the lady's family, it would be an unpleasant thing.”
“And remember that I have not much reason for supposing it to be Bingley. What he told me was merely this: that he congratulated himself on having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most imprudent marriage, but without mentioning names or any other particulars, and I only suspected it to be Bingley from believing him the kind of young man to get into a scrape of that sort, and from knowing them to have been together the whole of last summer.”
“I understood that there were some very strong objections against the lady.”
“He did not talk to me of his own arts,”
“He only told me what I have now told you.”
“You are rather disposed to call his interference officious?”
“That is not an unnatural surmise,”
“but it is a lessening of the honour of my cousin's triumph very sadly.”
“What! Always to be watched, in person or by proxy!”
“I wish your heart were independent. That would be enough for me.”
“If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.”
“Never more so; for the edge of a blooming cheek is still in view — at once too much and too little.”
“How glad I shall be when you are all off.”
"Your sister, I understand, does not approve of second attachments."
"Or rather, as I believe, she considers them impossible to exist."
"This will probably be the case,"
"and yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions."
"Does your sister make no distinction in her objections against a second attachment? or is it equally criminal in every body? Are those who have been disappointed in their first choice, whether from the inconstancy of its object, or the perverseness of circumstances, to be equally indifferent during the rest of their lives?"
"This,"
"cannot hold; but a change, a total change of sentiments — No, no, do not desire it; for when the romantic refinements of a young mind are obliged to give way, how frequently are they succeeded by such opinions as are but too common, and too dangerous! I speak from experience. I once knew a lady who in temper and mind greatly resembled your sister, who thought and judged like her, but who from an inforced change — from a series of unfortunate circumstances"
"None at all, ma'am, I thank you."
"No, ma'am. It came from town, and is merely a letter of business."
"No, indeed, it is not."
"Whom do you mean, ma'am?"
"I am particularly sorry, ma'am,"
"that I should receive this letter today, for it is on business which requires my immediate attendance in town."
"My own loss is great,"
"in being obliged to leave so agreeable a party; but I am the more concerned, as I fear my presence is necessary to gain your admittance at Whitwell."
"I wish it could be so easily settled. But it is not in my power to delay my journey for one day!"
"I cannot afford to lose ONE hour." —