1. “For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him. Proud that in a cause of compassion and honour, he had been able to get the better of himself.”
2. “He looks miserable poor soul!”
3. “Obstinate, headstrong girl!”
4. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.”
5. “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
6. “I love you. Most ardently.”
7. “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.”
8. “If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.”
9. “I know I shall probably never see him again, but I cannot bear to think that he is alive in the world and thinking ill of me.”
10. “Do anything rather than marry without affection.”
11. “her to look at a picture. She approached and saw the likeness of Mr. Wickham, suspended, amongst several other miniatures,”
12. “But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”
13. “Yes, always,” she replied, without knowing what she said, for her thoughts had wandered far from the subject, as soon afterwards appeared by her suddenly exclaiming, “I remember hearing you once say, Mr. Darcy, that you hardly ever forgave, that you resentment once created was unappeasable. You are very cautious, I suppose, as to its beingcreated.”
14. “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.”
15. “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
16. “I do not have the talent of conversing easily with people I have never met before.”
17. “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 characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
18. “They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.”
19. “my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be…”
20. “I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
21. “It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?”
22. “You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.”
23. “very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.”
24. “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.”
25. “There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement”
26. “She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man, who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes.”
27. “Where she feared most to fail, she was most sure of success, for those to whom she endeavored to give pleasure were prepossessed in her favor.”
28. “Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last”
29. “My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
30. “Resignation to inevitable evils is the evil duty of us all; the”
31. “And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”
32. “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.”
33. “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine .”
34. “It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
35. “A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
36. “I am not afraid; for though I am the youngest, I’m the tallest.”
37. “She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.”
38. “She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.”
39. “We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.”
40. “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
41. “What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.”
42. “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
43. “At his own ball he offended two or three young ladies, by not asking them to dance; and I spoke to him twice myself, without receiving an answer. Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
44. “He is a gentleman and i am a gentleman’s daughter. so far we are equal.”
45. “Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never. ”
46. “Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to play you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.”
47. “She found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.”
48. “… every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason.”
49. “Angry people are not always wise.”
50. “Nothing is more deceitful…than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
51. “…but that was only when I first knew her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.”
52. “The tumult of her mind was now painfully great. She knew not how to support herself, and, from actual weakness, sat down and cried for half an hour.”
53. “I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
54. “I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
55. “Every savage can dance.”
56. “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.”
57. “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. 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.”
58. “Till this moment I never knew myself.”
59. “Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.”
60. “Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
61. “my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.”
62. “Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”
63. “Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of both were overspread with the deepest blush.”
64. “What a contrast between him and his friend!”
65. “Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.”
66. “One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
67. “I never saw a more promising inclination; he was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her. Every time they met, it was more decided and remarkable. At his own ball he offended two or three young ladies, by not asking them to dance; and I spoke to him twice myself, without receiving an answer. Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
68. “You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
69. “My style of writing is very different from yours.”
70. “Money is the best recipe for happiness.”
71. “But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.”
72. “He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.”
73. “An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
74. “And never allow yourself to be blinded by prejudice?”
75. “I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”
76. “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
77. “I think you are in very great danger of making him as much in love with you as ever.”
78. “but she dispersed her tears to smile on him, and in her sister’s happiness forgot for a time her own disappointment”
79. “Do you not want to know who has taken it?” cried his wife impatiently. “You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.” This”
80. “It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.”
81. “You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”
82. “What are young men to rocks and mountains?”
83. “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
84. “All this she must possess,” added Darcy, “and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”
85. “‘I often think,’ said she, ‘that there is nothing so bad as parting with one’s friends. One seems so forlorn without them.’”
86. “If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”
87. “for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.”
88. “There is nothing so bad as parting with one’s friends. One seems too forlorn without them.”
89. “This was a lucky recollection — it saved her from something like regret.”
90. “two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia; and, removed from the influence of Lydia’s example, she became, by proper attention and management, less irritable, less ignorant,”
91. “We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.”
92. “Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?”
93. “I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”
94. “You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love you”
95. “A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
96. “All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.”
97. “I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.”
98. “should infinitely prefer a book.”
99. “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.”
100. “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.”
101. “Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
102. “My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
103. “‘I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!’ cried Jane. ‘Oh! Lizzy, why am I thus singled from my family and blessed above them all! If I could but see you as happy! If there were but such another man for you!”
104. “A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
105. “It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.”
106. “You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
107. “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.”
108. “There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.”
109. “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.”
110. “I am heartily ashamed of myself, Lizzy. But don’t despair, it’ll pass; and no doubt more quickly than it should.”
111. “She longed to know what at the moment was passing in his mind–in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in defiance of everything, she was still dear to him.”
112. “I have not the smallest objection to explaining them,” said he, as soon as she allowed him to speak. “You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other’s confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking; if the first, I would be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.”
113. “Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
114. “I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
115. “I declare after all ,there is no enjoyment like reading!!”
116. “To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
117. “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
118. “I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.”
119. “I do not find it easy to talk to people I don’t know.”
120. “wish to think all the world respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of anybody. I only want to think YOU perfect, and you set yourself against it.”
121. “A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.”
122. “She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.”
123. “One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.”
124. “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.”
125. “The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
126. “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.”
127. “Oh Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”
128. “Men of sense do not want silly wives.”
129. “What do you think of books?” said he, smiling.”
130. “I should indefinitely prefer a book.”
131. “I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.”
132. “You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity,”
133. “As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit.”
134. “Her affections had continually been fluctuating but never without an object.”
135. “They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time;…”
136. “Your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.” “And yours,” he replied with a smile, “is willfully to misunderstand them.”
137. “How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.”
138. “Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together; and yet for the advantage ofsome, conversation ought to be so arranged, as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.”
139. “…and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters.”
140. “It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”
141. “I must have my share in the conversation…”
142. “To be sure, you knew no actual good of me – but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.”
143. “We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
