Quotes from book

Pride and Prejudice

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

“I love you. Most ardently.”

“It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.”

“proper attention and management, less irritable, less”

“I am all astonishment.”

“I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.”

“Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"

"For the liveliness of your mind, I did.”

“There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.”

“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”

“How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.”

“The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy”

“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.”

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”

“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness.”

“Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.”

“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me.”

“I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.”

“Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?”

“I dearly love a laugh… I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”