Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice Quotes

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”~ Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice)

I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love

For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.

... a whole day’s tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.

With a book he was regardless of time...

With a book, he was regardless of time.

Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.

Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

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.

You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!