Pride And Prejudice Pride Quotes

• My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Forever, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.50

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

  Jane Austen

  Children, Long, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2010). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.94, Giunti Editore

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

  Jane Austen

  Prejudice, World, Inconsistency

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.119

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

  Jane Austen

  Love, Funny, Romantic

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.104, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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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. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

  Jane Austen

  Daughter, Men, Views

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

  Jane Austen

  Stupid, Men, Knowing

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.664, Google Publishing

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

  Jane Austen

  Prejudice, May, Call Me

  "Fictional character: Elizabeth Bennet". "Pride & Prejudice", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Inspiring, Happy

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.6.

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• An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Pride, Mr Collins

  'Pride and Prejudice' (1813) ch. 20 (Mr Bennet)

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• The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

  Jane Austen

  Distance, Motive

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Jane Austen

  Prejudice, Worthy, Please

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.323

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• You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love...I love...I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

  D'arcy Wretzky

  Love, Romantic, Loving You

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

  Jane Austen

  Vanity, Prejudice, Deceiving

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.120

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

  Jane Austen

  Forgiveness, Pride, Mrs Bennet

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.16

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• Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

  Jane Austen

  Mrs Bennet, Ironic, Suffering

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.97, Full Moon Publications

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• We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Romance, Proud

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.297

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• They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

  Jane Austen

  Knowing, Attention, Too Much

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.190, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

  Jane Austen

  Party, Doe, Littles

  "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 6, 1813.

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• I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

  Jane Austen

  Mrs Bennet, Understanding, Pleasure

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.89, Lulu.com

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• It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

  Jane Austen

  Mean, Men, Vanity

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.120

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• How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

  Jane Austen

  Couple, Passion, Together

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.271

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• You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

  Jane Austen

  Philosophy, Past, Thinking

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.279

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• 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

  Inspiring, Courage, Women

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.79, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

  Jane Austen

  Humility, Deceit, Appearance

  Jane Austen, John Halperin (1975). “Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays”, p.129, CUP Archive

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• From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and 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.

  Jane Austen

  Selfish, Men, Feelings

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.133

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