p&p quotes

I have…

…every reason to think ill of you (Elizabeth).

I never saw such…

…such capacity, and taste, and application, and elegance (Elizabeth).

Ruining, perhaps…

…perhaps forever, the happiness of a most beloved sister? (Elizabeth).

That she should have…

…walked 3 miles so early in the morning, in such dirty weather, and by herself, was almost incredible (Netherfield company).

Everybody says…

…that he is ate up with pride (Mrs Bennet).

I had not known you…

…a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever marry (Elizabeth).

Till this moment…

…I never knew myself (Elizabeth).

The family obstacles…

…which judgement had always opposed (Darcy).

In spite of his…

…asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness (Darcy).

The liveliness…

…of your mind (Darcy).

We neither of…

…us perform to strangers (Darcy).

A man violently…

…in love (Collins).

It is very often nothing…

…but our own vanity that deceives us (Jane).

All the world…

…are good and agreeable in your eyes (Elizabeth).

Let Wickham be your…

…man. He is a pleasant fellow, and would jilt you creditably (Mr Bennet).

One cannot know…

…what a man really is by the end of a fortnight (Mr Bennet).

Her father, contented with…

…laughing at them, would never exert himself to restrain the wild giddiness of his youngest daughters (Mr Bennet).

Let me once…

…in my life feel how much I have been to blame (Mr Bennet).

You must visit…

…him as soon as he comes (Mrs Bennet).

If they had uncles enough to fill all Cheapside…

…it would not make them one jot less agreeable (Mr Bingley).

Jane, I take…

…your place now, and you must go lower, because I am a married woman (Lydia).

A favourite with her mother…

…whose affection had brought her into public at a young age (Lydia).

Being the only plain one in the family…

…worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments (Mary).

A woman had…

…better show more affection than she feels (Charlotte).

Happiness in marriage…

…is entirely a matter of chance (Charlotte).

I am not a…

…romantic… I ask only a comfortable home (Charlotte).

That expression of…

…'violently in love' is so hackneyed (Mrs Gardiner).

The attention of every…

…lady was soon caught by a young man… of a most gentlemanlike appearance (Wickham).

The Netherfield sisters…

…would have had difficulty believing that a man who lived by trade… could have been so well-bred (Netherfield).

Your alliance will…

…be a disgrace (Lady Catherine de Bourgh).

Are the shades of…

…Pemberley to be thus polluted? (Lady Catherine).

I am aware that…

…£1000 is all you may ever be entitled to (Mr Collins).

Sensible, good-humoured…

…lively; and I never saw such happy manners! (Mrs Bennet about Mr Bingley).

Her father had…

…married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind had… put an end to all real affection.

You shall not…

…change the meaning of principle and integrity… that selfishness is prudence (Elizabeth about Charlotte).

Do you not consider…

…that a connection with you, must disgrace him in the eyes of everybody? (Lady Catherine).

I am not to be…

…intimidated into anything so wholly unreasonable (Elizabeth to Lady Catherine).

I am only resolved to…

…constitute my own happiness (against Lady Catherine).

I have never…

…desired your good opinion, and you have bestowed it mostly unwillingly.

I should…

…say, one of her ladyship's carriages, for she has several.

The death of…

…your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison.

There can be…

…nothing so advantageous as instruction.

Mr Collins considers the clerical office as equal…

…with the highest rank in the kingdom - provided that a proper humility… is maintained.

The business…

…of her life was to get her daughters married.

He has no…

…improper pride. He is perfectly amiable.

When Mr Collins…

…could be forgotten, there was really a great air of comfort throughout.

She likes…

…to have the distinction of rank preserved (Lady Catherine).

Mr Wickham's nature is revealed in the letter to Elizabeth from Jane…

…Mr Wickham was not a man to be trusted.

Everything…

…must sink under such proof of family weakness.

At night…

…she opened her heart to Jane.

Pour into the…

…wounded bosoms of each other, the balm of sisterly consolation.

But vanity…

…not love, has been my folly.

She had no…

…conversation, no style, no taste, no beauty (Catherine Bingley).