Delve into the timeless wisdom and wit of Jane Austen through one of her most beloved works, *Pride and Prejudice*. This collection features 10 categories of famous quotes that reflect the novel’s themes of love, pride, prejudice, family, and societal expectations. Each quote provides a fascinating glimpse into human behavior and emotions, all wrapped in Austen’s unparalleled prose. Whether you’re a long-time fan of the novel or a newcomer to the story, these quotes will entertain, inspire, and resonate with you. Let’s explore the brilliance of *Pride and Prejudice* and uncover the depth of Jane Austen’s insights into the human condition.
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"You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
"There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to."
"We are all fools in love."
"A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
"A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!"
"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed."
"He spoke well, but there were feelings besides those of the heart to be detailed."
"If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him."
"I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice."
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."
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### "Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously."
"My good opinion once lost, is lost forever."
"Angry people are not always wise."
"A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves."
"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."
"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion."
"The distance is nothing when one has a motive."
"It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first."
"Everybody likes to go their own way—to choose their own time and manner of devotion."
"We do not look in our great cities for our best morality."
"From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit had made me determined not to care for you."
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### "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?"
"It is not of peculiar, but of general evils, which I am now complaining."
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
"What are men to rocks and mountains?"
"An unhappy alternative is before you. From this day, you must be a stranger to one of your parents."
"I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet. I send no compliments to your mother."
"Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity, are not worth a regret."
"Till this moment, I never knew myself."
"We neither of us perform to strangers."
"There is a fine old saying, which every day will confirm—‘If you give a woman a willing mind, you give her body too.’"
"Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do."
"You ought to know, as well as I do, what her manners were at the time."
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### "What are young men to rocks and mountains?"
"I have no pretension whatever to that kind of elegance."
"A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill."
"How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!"
"The power of doing anything with quickness is always much prized by the possessor."
"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."
"A lady’s imagination is very rapid—it jumps from admiration to love."
"I always say what I think."
"Her complexion was beautiful."
"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."
"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing."
"People themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for every fresh meeting."
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### "There must be some great defect in your husband’s understanding!"
"I am perfectly ready to keep my engagement."
"The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied."
"What a lot risque prejudice useful lesson"
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