QUOTES FROM PRIDE AND PREJUDICE ABOUT LOVE

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

“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.”

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

“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.”

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

“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me.”

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”

“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

“I love him. Indeed he has no improper pride. He is perfectly amiable.”

“Our scars make us know that our past was for real.” QUOTES FOR BUSY DAYS

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.”

“There are periods of time in which belonging nowhere is the ultimate gift.”

“I think pride is a side effect of the truly terrible things we do as humans.”

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.”

“I do not know how to make love; I do not know what it means.”

“For the liveliness of your mind, I can only put it down to one thing—your indifference to yourself.”

“A sister’s partiality is, of course, a bias, but a wife’s partiality cannot be considered as a bias.”

“But I was too proud to be vain.”

“We all have a better guide in ourselves if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”

“An unhappy alternative is before you – your mother to forfeit the esteem of your sisters, or acknowledge the principal to another.”

“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.”

“We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”

“We are all fools in love.”