| | "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." |
| | "Affectation of candour is common enough— one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design— to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad— belongs to you alone." |
| | "I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine." |
| | "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." |
| | "If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." |
| | "Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow." |
| | "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment." |
| | "Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast." |
| | "The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance." |
| | "You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged." |
| | "Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion." |
| | "Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends— whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain." |
| | "It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first." |
| | "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." |
| | "You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness." |
| | "Is not general incivility the very essence of love?" |
| | "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." |
| | "In vain I have 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." |
| | "You have said quite enough, madam. I perfectly comprehend your feelings, and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been. Forgive me for having taken up so much of your time, and accept my best wishes for your health and happiness." |
| | "Be not alarmed, madam, on receiving this letter, by the apprehension of its containing any repetition of those sentiments or renewal of those offers which were last night so disgusting to you." |
| | "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" |
| | "I am not to be intimidated into anything so wholly unreasonable." |
| | "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." |
| | "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." |
| | "Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure." |