Quotes from book

Pride and Prejudice

“How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.”

“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
And men take care that they should.”

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”

“my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.”

“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

-Mr. Darcy”

“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”

“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”

“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.”

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

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

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

“We are all fools in love”

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”

“Till this moment I never knew myself.”

“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”

“I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.”