Elizabeth Bennet

377 quotes

"I should not care how you feel towards me. You are too insignificant."
"The happiness which this reply must have given you."
"I have been most grossly wicked and base."
"It does not materially signify what one wears in the country."
"My feelings have undergone so material a change."
"Nothing can clear him; I see it now in an instant."
"I shall drive through the country in due propriety."
"Let us be thankful for the blessing we enjoy."
Gratitude
"I admire all my three sons-in-law highly."
"Would that all my children were married!"
"I have nothing to recommend myself to you but truth."
"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery."
Philosophy
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
Truth
"I am not afraid of you."
Courage
"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."
Strength
"I could easily forgive his pride if he had not mortified mine."
"The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it."
Wisdom
"You have delighted us long enough."
Humor
"It does not appear that he improves on acquaintance."
"I dearly love a laugh."
Humor
"Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature."
Truth
"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well."
Relationships
"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings."
Life
"I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow."
Beauty
"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
Humor
"We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what we already know."
Education
"I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect."
Change
"If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him."
Love
"I am the happiest creature in the world."
Happiness
"Nothing is so flattering to a woman as attention from a man."
Relationships