Pride And Prejudice Book Quotes:

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.166

topic: Vanity, Pride And Prejudice Book, Folly, Vanity And Pride

Till this moment I never knew myself.

- Jane Austen

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

topic: Prejudice, Moments, Pride And Prejudice Book, Pride And Prejudice Pride

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

- Jane Austen

topic: Humility, Hype, Deceit, Deceitful, Carelessness

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

topic: Love, Romantic, Funny Relationship, Marriage Proposal, Admire You

There are few people whom I really 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 merit or sense.

- Jane Austen

topic: Character, Thinking, People, Pride And Prejudice Book, Pride And Prejudice Pride

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice [The 50 Best Classic Books Ever - # 03]”, p.52, Jane Austen

topic: Reading, Enjoyment, Libraries And Reading, Pride And Prejudice Book, Pride And Prejudice Pride

What are men to rocks and mountains?

- Jane Austen

topic: Men, Rocks, Mountain, Pride And Prejudice Book, Pride And Prejudice Pride

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)

- Jane Austen

topic: Love, Pride, Way, Pride And Prejudice Book, Mrs Bennet

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

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

topic: Pride, Men, Giving, Slighted, Pride And Prejudice Book

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

topic: Daughter, Men, Views, Great Literature, Good Fortune

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

- Mark Twain

topic: Hate, Book, Writing, Novel Writing, Pride And Prejudice Book

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

- Jane Austen

topic: Heart, Pride, Prejudice, Pride And Prejudice Book

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

topic: Courage, Women, Empowerment, Pride And Prejudice Book, Pride And Prejudice Pride

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2006). “Pride and Prejudice EasyRead Edition”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Men, Handsome, Enough, Pride And Prejudice Book

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

- Jane Austen

source: Pride and Prejudice ch. 40 (1813)

topic: Inspiring, Witty, Laughter, Pride And Prejudice Book, Stumbling

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

- Jane Austen

topic: Stupid, Men, Knowing, Stupid Men, Pride And Prejudice Book

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.150, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

topic: Vanity, Affection, Blind, Pride And Prejudice Book, Vanity And Pride

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen “Pride and Prejudice”, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Stories, Spirit, Ridiculous, Pride And Prejudice Book

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

- Jane Austen

source: Huw Thomas, Jane Austen (2014). “Exploring Pride and Prejudice (Includes Jane Austen's Original Novel): A Journey through the 1995 TV Series Starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle”, p.103, BookBaby

topic: Should Have, Prejudice, Has Beens, Pride And Prejudice Book

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

- Jane Austen

topic: Girl, Likes, Next, Pride And Prejudice Book, Pride And Prejudice Pride

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

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

topic: Selfish, Men, Feelings, Disdain, Groundwork

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

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

topic: Beautiful, Sex, Loss, Undeserving, Guarded