Pride and Prejudice

"My mistakes have been many, but I knew that—I was wrong in everything."

"I love you. A thousand times over, I love you."

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

"How despicably I have acted! How scandalous my indifference has been!"

"Till this moment, I never knew what it was to be happy."

"I respect you. I thank you for my smelling salts—but I have none."

"I dearly love a laugh."

"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself against you, I can have little hope that anything will turn my opinion."

"It has been the circumstance, I believe, of knowing you to be as thorough a gentleman as ever I beheld."

"I am a cruel creature, aren't I?"

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

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

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

"I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony."

"No, no, don't think ill of me. I have had the pleasure of knowing you long enough to know you are capable of much steadier attachment."

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

"I should like balls infinitely better if they were carried on in a different manner."

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

"I found that he was not rendered the least uncomfortable by the certainty of my dislike."

"Be happy, and you will always be handsome."

"Perhaps I did not always love him so well as I do now."

"We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what we already know."

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

"I am perfectly convinced that Mr. Darcy has not the smallest regard for me."

"Do not be alarmed, madam, on receiving this letter."

"It does not follow that a deep, intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours."

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

"You have delighted us long enough."

"The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it."

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