The most iconic Pride & Prejudice Quotes, from Jane Austen's beloved novel.
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife".
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine".
"She is tolerable: but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men".
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity to what we would have others think of us".
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance".
"A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment".
"I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love".
"Is not general incivility the very essence of love?".
"What are men to rocks and mountains?".
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you".
"I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry".
"Till this moment, I never knew myself".
"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".
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?".
"If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever".
"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun".
"Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?".
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