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Pride and Prejudice quotes
Jane Austen
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“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.”
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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.”
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“Do anything rather than marry without affection.”
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“Nothing is more deceitful . . . than the appearance of humility.”
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“We do not suffer by accident.”
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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.”
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“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind! But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
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“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
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“The distance is nothing when one has a motive;”
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“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
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“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.”
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“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”
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“There is no enjoyment like reading!”
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“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are young men to rocks and mountains?”
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“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
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“Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.”
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“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
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“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess . . . of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.”
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“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.”
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“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
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“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”
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“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
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“Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.”
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“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love; and very lively hopes of Mr. Bingley's heart were entertained.”
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“If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.”
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“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.”
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“You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.”
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“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”
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“I beg you would not put it into Lizzy's head to be vexed by his ill-treatment, for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.”
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“You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.”
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“Do not give way to useless alarm . . . though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”
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“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding—certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so...”
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“My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them—by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.”
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“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.”
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“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love”
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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.”
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“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
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“I have not the pleasure of understanding you”
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“Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.”
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“Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
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“They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of both were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a...”
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“there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.”
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“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
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“Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.”
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“It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.”
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“I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.”
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“But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.”
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“We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.”
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“To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! Do not wish me such an evil.”
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“She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous.”
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