Jane Austen Quotes About Pride And Prejudice Book
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Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy
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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.
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Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
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The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.
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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions
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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.
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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.
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There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.
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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.
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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.
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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.
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Till this moment I never knew myself.
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