Quotes from book

Pride and Prejudice

“Money is the best recipe for happiness.”

“Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.”

“Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.”

“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”

“There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement”

“How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

“You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.”

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”

“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.”

“Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.”

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”

“I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”

“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.”

“We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.”

“It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.”

“Hope no one adds zombies to this.”

“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.”

“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”

“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.”