Pride and Prejudice

"I could have forgiven his pride if it had not mortified mine."

"The wisest and the best of men—nay, the wisest and best of their actions—may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke."

"These offences might have been overlooked, had not your pride been hurt by my honest confession of the scruples that had long prevented my forming any serious design."

"I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle."

"Your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."

"You are too generous to trifle with me."

"It does not follow that I shall never laugh again."

"I cannot perfectly understand the delight of some of your sex in engaging in such an occupation."

"Without the encouragement you give me, I am not sure how long my perseverance could last."

"Do not be alarmed. You shall have all the tardiness and all the comfort."

"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."

"Compliments cost nothing and are therefore very easily dispensed."

"A man would always wish to give a woman the highest opinion of his love."

"I am as happy as I can expect to be."

"I might have felt almost anything under the circumstances, but as it is, I merely feel great astonishment."

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

"You wish to think too highly of me; you will soon cease to do it, if you persist in this error."

"The arts are the glory of every age and country."

"Impudence is the quality I most object to in persons."

"I was taught what was proper; but I was not taught to govern my temper."

"We all have a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."

"I admire the elegance of your operation and the gentleness of your bearing."

"Angry people are not always wise."

"Time will teach me to forget what it may not be proper to remember."

"I respect you for your honesty in confessing your faults."

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

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

"I am unhappy about this. It will not do."

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

"I have had the pleasure of knowing you a long time, and the pleasure of your acquaintance."