K > K's Quotes

Showing 1-21 of 21
sort by

  • #1
    Jane Austen
    “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

    -Mr. Darcy”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #2
    Jane Austen
    “How despicably I have acted!" she cried; "I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust! How humiliating is this discovery! Yet, how just a humiliation! Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our aquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"

    "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “We do not suffer by accident.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #6
    Jane Austen
    “Elizabeth's spirit's soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. 'How could you begin?' said she.
    'I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place?' 'I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that could be so called. The respect created by the conviction of his valuable qualities, though at first unwillingly admitted, had for some time ceased to be repugnant to her feelings; and it was now heightened into somewhat of a friendlier nature, by the testimony so highly in his favour, and bringing forward his disposition in so amiable a light, which yesterday had produced. But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not be overlooked. It was gratitude.--Gratitude not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister. Such a change in a man of so much pride, excited not only astonishment but gratitude--for to love, ardent love, it must be attributed; and as such its impression on her was of a sort to be encouraged, as by no means unpleasing, though it could not exactly be defined.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #11
    Jane Austen
    “The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “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.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #13
    Jane Austen
    “However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.”
    “And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth impatiently. “There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!”
    “I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love,” said Darcy.
    “Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #14
    Jane Austen
    “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.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #15
    Jane Austen
    “Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.”
    -Elizabeth Bennet”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #16
    Jane Austen
    “Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #17
    Jane Austen
    “She attracted him more than he liked.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #18
    Jane Austen
    “my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #19
    Jane Austen
    “She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #20
    Harlan Coben
    “Myron reached for the phone and dialed Win's number. After the eighth ring he began to hang up when a weak, distant voice coughed. "Hello?"
    Win?"
    Yeah."
    You okay?"
    Hello?"
    Win?"
    Yeah."
    What took you so long to answer the phone?"
    Hello?"
    Win?"
    Who is this?"
    Myron."
    Myron Bolitar?"
    How many other Myrons do you know?"
    Myron Bolitar?"
    No, Myron Rockefeller."
    Something's wrong," Win said.
    What?"
    Terribly wrong."
    What are you talking about?"
    Some asshole is calling me at seven in the morning pretending to be my best friend."
    Sorry, I forgot the time.”
    Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

  • #21
    Jennifer L. Armentrout
    “I want to marry you because I'm in love with you, Kat. I will always be in love with you. That's not going to change today or two weeks from now. I will be just as in love with you in twenty years as I am today.”
    Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin



Rss