PRIDE & PREJUDICE QUOTES

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

— Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice

"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."

— Caroline Bingley, Pride and Prejudice

“My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.”

— Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice

"Your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.”

— Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice

"There is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them."

— Mrs. Bennet, Pride and Prejudice

"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."

— Mary Bennet, Pride and Prejudice

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

— Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice

"He wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.”
“And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth impatiently. “There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!”
“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love,” said Darcy.
“Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."

— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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

— Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice

"A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then."

— Mr. Bennet, Pride and Prejudice

"People themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever."

— Mr. Bingley, Pride and Prejudice

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

— Mr. Bennet, Pride and Prejudice

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

— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"What are men to rocks and mountains?"

— Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice

"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."

— Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice

"You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

— Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice