“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excelle...”
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Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet is at first determined to dislike Mr. Darcy, who is handsome and eligible. This misjudgment only matched in folly by Darcy's arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to truer feelings in a comedy concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved.
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Jane Austen
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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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“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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“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.”
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“Angry people are not always wise.”
“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
“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.”
“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...”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
“Elizabeth's spirit's soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. 'How could you begin?' said she. 'I can comprehend your go...”
“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 incons...”
“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 each were overspread wit...”
“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”
“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.”
“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
“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.”
“How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”
“We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity t...”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicit...”
“I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.”
“Her looks and words had nothing to restrain them. She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”
“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love”