Pride and Prejudice Quotes
Quotes by Elizabeth Bennet :
“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
“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 inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
“The distance is nothing when one has motive.”
“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”
“Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”
“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
“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.”
“Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to play you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.”
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
“Your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.” “And yours,” he replied with a smile, “is willfully to misunderstand them.”
“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.
