Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

“and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes.

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”

Mr. Darcy replied with great intrepidity: “Miss Elizabeth Bennet.”

“I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.”

“Indeed I do not dare.”

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