Pride and Prejudice

"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"

"I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow."

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

"It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion to be secure of judging properly at first."

"I certainly have not the talent which some people possess of conversing easily with those I have never seen before."

"My good opinion once lost is lost forever."

"I am in no humour for talking. Go away."

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."

"You have delighted us long enough. Let us now be silent."

"I could not be happy with a man whose tastes did not accord with my own."

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

"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery."

"I have nothing to recommend myself to you but truth."

"Would that all my children were married!"

"I admire all my three sons-in-law highly."

"Let us be thankful for the blessing we enjoy."

"I shall drive through the country in due propriety."

"Nothing can clear him; I see it now in an instant."

"My feelings have undergone so material a change."

"It does not materially signify what one wears in the country."

"I have been most grossly wicked and base."

"The happiness which this reply must have given you."

"I should not care how you feel towards me. You are too insignificant."

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

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

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

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

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

"You have insulted me in every possible method."

"A person may be proud without being vain."