Pride and Prejudice

Famous quotes

• It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

  In context

  • Marriage
  • Money

• She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.

  Volume I, Chapter IIn context

  • Character
  • Marriage

• To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love

  Volume I, Chapter IIIIn context

  • Dancing
  • Love

• She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me

  Volume I, Chapter IIIIn context

  • Beauty
  • Clever Jabs

• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonimously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

  Volume I, Chapter VIn context

  • Pride

• Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

  Volume I, Chapter VIIn context

  • Happiness
  • Luck
  • Marriage

• I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

  Volume I, Chapter VIIn context

  • Beauty
  • Women

• A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

  Volume I, Chapter VIIn context

  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Women

• I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!

  Volume I, Chapter IXIn context

  • Love
  • Poetry

• “To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.”

  Volume I, Chapter XIn context

  • Debate

• “It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.”

  Volume I, Chapter XVIIIIn context

  • Thinking

• Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

  Volume I, Chapter XIXIn context

  • Truth & Lies
  • Women

• 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 dissatisfied with it

  Volume II, Chapter IIn context

  • Character
  • Love

• Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions.

  Volume II, Chapter IIn context

  • Comedy
  • Love

• Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

  Volume II, Chapter IIIn context

  • Love

• There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

  Volume II, Chapter VIIIIn context

  • Courage

• “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.”

  Volume II, Chapter XIIn context

  • Love

• You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.

  Volume II, Chapter XIIn context

  • Clever Jabs
  • Men

• I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

  Volume II, Chapter XIIn context

  • Clever Jabs
  • Marriage

• But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

  Volume II, Chapter XIIIIn context

  • Love
  • Pride

• He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.

  Volume III, Chapter XIVIn context

  • Pride

• For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

  Volume III, Chapter XVIn context

  • Comedy
  • Laughter

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