Quotes from book

Pride and Prejudice

“And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”

“Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.”

“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”

“What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.”

“Vanity, not love, has been my folly.”

“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.”

“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.”

“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?”

“A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

“Everything nourishes what is strong already”

“Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.”

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”

“She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.”

“It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.”

“To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.”

“If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”

“You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.”

“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”