Pride and Prejudice: The Original 1813 Unabridged and Complete Edition (A Jane Austen Classic Novel)

by Jane Austen

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

“I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party.” “My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.” “In such cases, a woman has not often much beauty to think of.”

circumspection.

fortnight’s

suppositions,

surmises;

for he was discovered to be proud; to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.

“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

ostentation

haughty,

fastidious,

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.”

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him;

there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

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.”

panegyric,

laudable

precip...

celerity.

obstinacy

pianoforte;

approbation.

gallantry;

archness

af...

bewi...

felicity?”

anecdote

abominable.

My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”

“And your defect is to hate everybody.” “And yours,” he replied with a smile, “is willfully to misunderstand them.”

phaeton