Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

“My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them—by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.”

“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.”

marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and

“though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.