Elizabeth Bennet

"You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it."

"I marvel at the patience of my good friend Jane."

"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."

"No, no, no – I cannot think so very ill of myself."

"If I thought anything about him, I should be angry."

"We are all fools in love."

"My great-grandfather's butler's son could not have had less to do with it."

"I have nothing either to hope or to fear."

"There is nothing I would not do for those who really are my friends."

"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was at twenty-five."

"No, my dear, I have no hope, and I do not want any."

"You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity."

"Yours is a noble character."

"I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life."

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

"Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look for it beforehand."

"I am not romantic, you see; I never was."

"You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous."

"It gives me joy beyond all common rules of decorum."

"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."

"The world is not so blinded by his fortune or consequence as some people may think."

"Your plan is a good one, where nothing is to be done."

"I am excessively diverted."

"A person may be proud without being vain."

"You have insulted me in every possible method."

"I have neither property nor connections; nothing to recommend me but my natural defects."

"Better to be without sense than to misapply it."

"I can see clearly enough that you are not in the least attached to me."

"I wonder if any other set of people took half the pains for their own amusement."

"My dear Charlotte, do not try to prescribe my feelings."