Pride And Prejudice Book Quotes

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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

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.

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.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

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

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.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

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.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.