Pride and Prejudice

"I am excessively diverted."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Yours is a noble character."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"We are all fools in love."

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

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

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

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

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

"It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us."

"I am perfectly convinced of your affection for me."

"How can you contrive to write so even?"

"Would Mr. Darcy then leave the neighbourhood?"

"I think I have told you all. I do not know when I shall have another opportunity of talking privately with you."

"From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents."

"It does not right to make me the instrument of her mortification."