TagPride 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

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

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

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

I cannot imagine that it could be any where pleasant to a female, than in the society of one of her own sex, who had been educated sufficiently to feel the value of a superior woman.

Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

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

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library

Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

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.

Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice