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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Inspiring, Happy

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.6.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Sex, Loss

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.100

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• Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

  Jane Austen

  Integrity, Romance, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• 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

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.24.

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• I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

  Jane Austen

  Reading, Library, Pride And Prejudice Book

  Jane Austen (2016). “Jane Austen The Dover Reader”, p.81, Courier Dover Publications

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• Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.

  Jane Austen

  Sorry, Heart, Broken

  Jane Austen (2009). “Pride and Prejudice: Easyread Edition”, p.287, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Admiration, Objects

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.44

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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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• 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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• 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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