Pride and Prejudice

"The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it."

"I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding."

"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy."

"Affection is desirable. Money is desirable. But I never want to marry a man just because he is rich."

"Everybody has a right to be ridiculous sometimes."

"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."

"I would always rather be happy than dignified."

"It does not follow that a woman should be less guarded, because she is in love."

"I am not one of those women who trust their luck in the mariages."

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

"You cannot make everyone like you, any more than you can make the sun shine every day."

"I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle."

"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?"

"It is always the women who have to bear the consequences of men's mistakes."

"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."

"What is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive?"

"You have delighted us long enough."

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

"Better to have fought and lost, than never to have fought at all."

"I have nothing to accuse him of but of being in love with me."

"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."

"You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of prudence."

"I am not at all in a humour for talking."

"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."

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

"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."

"Business, you see, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does."

"Perhaps it is better to be silent than to be ridiculous."

"I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has not the smallest concern with Mr. Wickham's leaving Brighton."

"You have bewitched me, body and soul."