Pride and Prejudice

"I have nothing to say to you that you will not hear with some concern."

"There is nothing more to be done. Only wait and hope."

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

"Ignorance and bungling with respect to some things are not a proof of stupidity."

"My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible."

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

"You have delighted us long enough."

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

"I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has not the smallest concern with that affair."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once."

"I wish I could be as certain of anything as I am of myself."

"I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!"

"You have shown me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased."

"My temper would perhaps be as violent in his case, as it ever was before your were to see it."

"Nobody can blame you for refusing a man who is lame."

"Better to be without sense than to misapply it as you do."

"I am convinced that one has not yet lost all one's heart when one feels obliged to behave so very properly."

"We are all fools in love."

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

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

"There are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement."

"I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has not the smallest concern for that scheme."

"You have delighted us long enough."

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