QUOTES ABOUT LOVE IN PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

“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.” – Mr. Darcy

“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.” – Mr. Darcy

“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.” – Mr. Darcy

“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.” – Mr. Darcy

“My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.” – Mr. Darcy

“I love you. Most ardently. Please do me the honor of accepting my hand.” – Mr. Darcy

“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.” – Elizabeth Bennet

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” – Elizabeth Bennet

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.” – Elizabeth Bennet

“You have no compassion for my poor nerves.” – Mrs. Bennet

“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.” – Elizabeth Bennet

“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” – Mr. Bennet

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.” – Mr. Bennet

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – Narrator

“I cannot make speeches, Emma… If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” – Mr. Knightley

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.” – Mr. Knightley HUSBAND CHRISTMAS CARD QUOTES

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” – Narrator

“I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print.” – Mr. Bingley

“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.” – Mr. Darcy

“It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.” – Mr. Darcy

“Till this moment, I never knew myself.” – Elizabeth Bennet

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” – Jane Bennet

“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own.” – Elizabeth Bennet

“There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.” – Elizabeth Bennet

“Pride, observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed.” – Mary Bennet

“The real evils, indeed, of Emma’s situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself” – Narrator

“One must be careful of one’s disposition- though, to be sure, if a young lady is to be a heroine -or-wise, she must have a villain. I would rather be glad of it. News is so seldom good, that any exaggeration must be expected.” – Mrs. Bennet

“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.” – Jane Bennet

“How is such a man to be worked on? How are they even to be discovered? I have not the smallest hope. It is every way horrible!” – Elizabeth Bennet

“It is a pity,” she was obliged to confess, “that we have not such a comfortable chair as this in the house.” – Elizabeth Bennet