Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.

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

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

"Upon my word, sir," cried Elizabeth, "your hope is a rather extraordinary one after my declaration. I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so. Nay, were your friend Lady Catherine to know me, I am persuaded she would find me in every respect ill qualified for the situation."