“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
“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.”
“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
"I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love."
“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love”
“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
"The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke."
“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
"Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?"
“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
"One may be continually abusive without saying anything just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."
“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of”
“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”
“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation, and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."
“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”
“I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.”
“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
-Mr. Darcy”
“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.”
“Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)”
“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”
“I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.”
“Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.”
“I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.”
“The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy”
“This is an evening of wonders, indeed!”
“One word from you shall silence me forever.”
“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
"I am astonished, my dear... that you should be so ready to think your own children silly. If I wished to think slightingly of anybody's children, it should not be of my own however."
“How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.”
“We do not suffer by accident.”
“I love you. Most ardently.”
“Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.”
“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”
"I should infinitely prefer a book."
“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
“Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
“Angry people are not always wise.”
“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 certain.”
“Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of both were overspread with the deepest blush.”
“It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?”
“From the very beginning—from the first moment, I may almost say—of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish distain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of the disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world on whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
“Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love you”
“There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement”
“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. 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.”