Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

Quotes

• “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 am ...”
• “I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love"said Darcy."Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything n...”
• “There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best ...”
• “We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so ...”
• “You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it s...”
• “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being...”
• “Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be ...”
• “my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belo...”
• “It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions...”
• “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I...”
• “I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am h...”
• “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in...”
• “There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and ...”
• “She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladi...”
• “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at ...”
• “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently ...”
• “Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what...”
• “Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good...”
• “Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as...”
• “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
• “And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”
• “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
• “We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
• “Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
• “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
• “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
• “Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”
• “How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”
• “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
• “Angry people are not always wise.”