Elizabeth Bennet

377 quotes

"I should infinitely prefer a book."
Literature
"What strange creatures we are!"
Philosophy
"I am not romantic, you see."
Truth
"Do not you feel a great inclination, Mrs. Bennet, to go back to the beginning?"
Time
"Mr. Darcy is not at all in the humour for talking."
"No, no, let me have the pleasure of convincing you of its being perfectly natural."
Wisdom
"You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way."
Freedom
"I abhor every common rule of courtship."
Freedom
"There is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ."
"If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it."
Truth
"I feel as if I shall go mad."
"Almost anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection."
Love
"We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition."
"Jealousy is a bad ingredient in conversation."
Wisdom
"Where shall we see a better society?"
Relationships
"A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages."
Education
"One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man should think highly of himself."
"I love you. I am who I am because of you."
Love
"You are too generous to trifle with me."
"I have nothing to accuse him of but pride."
Truth
"She had already been rejected."
Courage
"Have I not heard you say that she was one of the finest-looking women in town?"
Beauty
"I am not one of those females who can forgive a man for being in love with another woman."
"My dear, you could not possibly be expected to pay a compliment today."
Humor
"It does not follow that a deep, intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours."
Wisdom
"You could not shock me more than you do at this moment."
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
"Do you talk by rule then, while he speaks by chance?"
Humor
"I wish I could see this becoming modesty in either of you."
"There are certainly enough in the world, if anybody cared for them."