I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 55. When Mr. Bennet’s good-natured eldest daughter Jane gets engaged to the very likeable Mr. Bingley, he congratulates her. But he has a funny way of saying it. Here he makes an attempt at misplaced irony, joking about the similarity of their tempers, their servants cheating them, and being so generous they will exceed their income. But Mr. Bennet is never good at expressing his feelings, he is either unable to do so or unwilling.