Pride and Prejudice

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“We are all in an uproar.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“She is tolerable: but not handsome enough to tempt me;”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“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.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

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

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

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

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

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

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

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

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“Obstinate, headstrong girl! I am ashamed of you!”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“Affectation of candour is common enough; one meets with it everywhere.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

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

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“I dearly love a laugh.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“I declare, after all, there is no enjoyment like reading!”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

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

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

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

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“You have no compassion on my poor nerves.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“Till this moment, I never knew myself.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“I am the happiest creature in the world.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“I deserve neither such praise nor such censure.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“There are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love;”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“The distance is nothing, when one has a motive;”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“My good opinion once lost is lost for ever.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

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

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

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

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

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

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》