Quotes from Pride and Prejudice that spoke to me particularly. I haven't included context, but fans of the book can guess which scenes these lines are from.
- think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
- If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be as happy as you. Till I have your disposition , your goodness,I never can have your happiness.
- And this said she, " is the end of all his friends anxious circumspection! Of all his sisters falsehood and contrivance! The happiest, wisest, most reasonable end!"
- If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty.
- And in the imprudence of anger
- But perhaps he may be a bit whimsical in his civilities. Great men often are; and therefore I shall not take him at his word about fishing, as he might change his mind another day, and warn me off his grounds.
- Respect, esteem and confidence had vanished forever.. she endeavored to forget what she could not overlook, and to banish from her thoughts that continual breach of conjugal obligation and decorum which in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible.
- Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.
- One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it
- She was now struck with the impropriety of such communications to a stranger, and wondered it had escaped her before.
- She tried to recollect some instance of goodness , some distinguished trait of integrity or benevolence. But no such recollection befriended her.
- He had ruined for a while every hope of happiness for the most affectionate, generous heart in the world
- Mrs Collins did not think it right to press the subject, from the danger of raising expectations which might only end in disappointment.
- She likes the distinction of rank preserved.
- Every view was pointed out with a minuteness which left beauty behind.
- Where does discretion end and avarice begin?
- A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe.
- All was joy and kindness
- Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
- There are few people I love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.
- The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke. Certainly replied Elizabeth-there are such people but I hope Iam not one of them. I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good.
- To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
- The power of doing anything with quickness is always much prized by the possessor , and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
- Of a fine healthy love it may- every thing nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.
