Pride And Prejudice Pride Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Stupid, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Those who do not complain are never pitied.

  Jane Austen

  Mrs Bennet, Ironic, Prejudice

  Jane Austen, Pamela Jane, Deborah Guyol (2015). “Pride and Prejudice and Kitties: A Cat-Lover's Romp through Jane Austen's Classic”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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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• Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Mrs Bennet, Prejudice

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 24 (1813)

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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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• 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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• One word from you shall silence me forever.

  Jane Austen

  Silence, Forever, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.260, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Thinking, Vanity

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.26, Waking Lion Press

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• For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Sports, Laughter

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 57 (1813)

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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.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Romantic, Funny Relationship

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.123

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• I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Pride, Pretty Woman

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.22

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• What are men to rocks and mountains?

  Jane Austen

  Men, Rocks, Mrs Bennet

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.27.

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• 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

  Prejudice, Littles, Vexation

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.18

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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Humility, Hype

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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

  Jane Austen

  Laughing, Prejudice, Literature

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.75

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

  Jane Austen

  Dance, Falling In Love, Dancing

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.99, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Till this moment I never knew myself.

  Jane Austen

  Prejudice, Moments, Pride And Prejudice Book

  Jane Austen (2010). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.175, Giunti Editore

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• You are too generous to trifle with me. 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.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Silence, Feelings

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.458, Wordsworth Editions

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• She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Men, Giving

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.9

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• You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

  Jane Austen

  Romantic, Love You, Pride

  Jane Austen, Joseph Pearce (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.190, Ignatius Press

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

  Jane Austen

  Selfish, Practice, Principles

  'Pride and Prejudice' (1813) ch. 58 (Mr Darcy)

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