Pride and Prejudice

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously."

"My temper would perhaps be called proud."

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

"I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds."

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

"I am convinced that one agreeable woman may fix the attention of a man of real understanding for life."

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

"Let me not be hasty in my judgment."

"To yield readily—easily—to the persuasion of a friend is no merit with you."

"Pray do not suppose that I moved to London with any such view."

"Business cannot excuse neglect of civility toward anybody."

"How despicably I have acted!"

"There is so much of gratitude and esteem couched in this expression of your sentiments."

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

"Perhaps I was too much occupied by my own feelings to do him justice."

"You cannot, I think, want to hear me declare that I am not one of those ladies who expect a man to do all the work."

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

"The world is not so bad as you represent it."

"She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me."

"You have delighted us long enough."

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

"I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion."

"A person may be proud without being arrogant."

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

"What have wealth and grandeur to do with happiness?"

"I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with you."

"I have nothing to say against you, except that you are likely to marry a man whom you may not like."

"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents."

"My temper I cannot change; but I can change what has offended you."

"She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me."