Pride and Prejudice Quotes

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you would silence me forever.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

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 the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. 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.

Angry people are not always wise.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

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.

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; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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

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

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.—Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared…to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free of them there.

May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?

She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.

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