Pride and Prejudice

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

"It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us."

"I am perfectly convinced of your affection for me."

"How can you contrive to write so even?"

"Would Mr. Darcy then leave the neighbourhood?"

"I think I have told you all. I do not know when I shall have another opportunity of talking privately with you."

"From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents."

"It does not right to make me the instrument of her mortification."

"I am convinced that one great reason of the majority of failures is from the absurdly high expectations we form."

"Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?"

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

"To be sure, you know no actual good of him."

"The longer I know her, the more I like her."

"Books are a legitimate source of pleasure."

"Without thinking highly of yourself, you cannot maintain your independence."

"I hope I have not been too hasty in my judgment."

"I declare I do not know a more awful object than Darcy."

"Her style was singularly dull."

"It would be most shameful to have no compassion on her infirmities."

"Ignorance and bungling with respect to some things, and knowledge of some others, make up the character of all the world."

"We all have a tendency to think too well of ourselves."

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

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

"Let me not be hasty in censuring anyone."

"I am not one of his intimate friends."

"How earnestly does she long for such an adventure!"

"You are the last man in the world whom I could be prevailed on to marry."

"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility."

"The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."

"I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, under any circumstances."