Pride And Prejudice Quotes

“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
― Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice

“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“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

“I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“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

“Obstinate, headstrong girl!”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.”
― Jane Austen

“Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I'm fully aware," Firth told a reporter for the English magazine Now, "that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.”
― Colin Firth

“He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.”
― Lynn Viehl, Private Demon

“My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.”
― Jane Austen

“I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]”
― Jane Austen

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size”
― Melissa Nathan

“I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?"

Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dawn of the Dreadfuls

“You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“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.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There are few of us who are secure enough to be within love without proper encouragement - Charlotte Lucas”
― Jane Austen

“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty women can bestow.'
Miss Bingley immediately fixated her eyes on his face, and desired he would tell her what lady had the credit of inspiring such reflections. Mr. Darcy replied:
'Miss Elizabeth Bennet.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

“Quite definitely a Bingley”
― Lauren Willig, The Mischief of the Mistletoe

“What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I have come to realise that your are the most important person in the world to me, and I wanted to know if you would consider... if you would do me the honour of becoming my wife”
― C. Allyn Pierson, Mr. Darcy's Little Sister