Pride and Prejudice

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

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

"You have insulted me in every possible method."

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

"I am perfectly serious in my refusal."

"The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor."

"I have had the pleasure of knowing you for some weeks now, Miss Elizabeth."

"My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

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

"I am not one of those gentlemen who can be supposed to please women."

"You have bewitched me, body and soul."

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

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"Let others toil for gold and fame; I wish but to live quietly by my own exertions."

"Nothing is more natural than to make mistakes in youth."

"I am now convinced that he is a man of sense and good humour."

"You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of prudence."

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

"A man who loves you sees more of you than any of us do."

"You are always giving me improper directions."

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

"As a child I was taught to love my country; now I choose to love it still."

"Such violent love must be either ridiculous or admirable."

"I can only in my own heart declare myself to be absolutely spotless."

"Reflect on your present situation."

"I do not think we were made for each other."

"You must feel, surely you must feel, the impropriety of it."

"I have nothing to say about that."

"My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me."