ALL quotes

• ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife’
• ’You want to say it and I have no objection to hear it.’ - Mr Bennet
• ’She is tolerable but not enough to tempt me.’ - Mr Darcy
• ’Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.’
• ’A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment’
• ’Her manners were pronounced to be very bed.’
• ’No stile, no taste, no beauty’
• ’Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that if it were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger.’
• ‘He might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification.’
• ‘A ball was at any rate, a ball’
• ’My reasons for marriage are…’
• ’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 I am dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters.’
• ’She tried to remember something of that gentle man’s reputed disposition’
• ’Every body was pleased to think how much they had always disliked Mr. Darcy before they had known anything of the matter.’
• ’What are men to rocks and mountains‘
• ‘He welcomed them a second time with ostentatious formality to his humble abode, and punctually repeated all his wife’s offers of refreshments’
• ‘Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence.’
• ‘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.’
• ’She grew absolutely ashamed of herself... she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd.’
• ‘She has no money, no connections, nothing that can tempt him to - she is lost forever.’
• ’And when you go away, you may leave one or two of my sisters behind you; and I dare say I shall get husbands for them before this winter is over.’
• ’I know disposition, Lizzie. I know that you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband.’
• ‘Daughters are never so much consequence to a father.’