Pride and Prejudice

"How long has it been that we have wished for such an event?"

"Angry as I was, I could not have given him up."

"I have never desired your good opinion, and you have certainly bestowed it unwillingly."

"I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness."

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

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors."

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

"She is as tolerable, I dare say, as other girls."

"I respect the implied trust; I shall not reveal it."

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

"We all love to instruct, though we do not all have the same reason."

"It is the general rule of every one else to be surpassed by you."

"Perhaps I do not express myself so well as I ought."

"I have nothing to accuse him of but being the nephew of Lady Catherine de Bourgh."

"Vanity and pride are different things."

"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well."

"It ought not to be attempted. Mr. Darcy could not sit alone in my company, and I am the last person to accept assiduous attention."

"You know we must not all expect Jane's good fortune."

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"

"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."

"You have delighted us long enough."

"I am not one of those young ladies who believe a man must be in love before he is accepted."

"If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him."

"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."

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love."

"I am not romantic, you see. I ask only a comfortable home."

"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth."

"Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make people fond of each other in any time."

"Affection is desirable all things, but where it is sure to be returned."