Pride and Prejudice

"I should not care how you feel towards me. You are too insignificant."

"My dear Charlotte, do not try to prescribe my feelings."

"I wonder if any other set of people took half the pains for their own amusement."

"I can see clearly enough that you are not in the least attached to me."

"Better to be without sense than to misapply it."

"I have neither property nor connections; nothing to recommend me but my natural defects."

"You have insulted me in every possible method."

"A person may be proud without being vain."

"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."