Jane Austen Prejudice Quotations

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before." Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

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

My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

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

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

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

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

We neither of us perform to strangers.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.