69 of the Best Pride and Prejudice Quotes by Jane Austen of all time

 

11. “Everything nourishes what is strong already”

12. “Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”

13. “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”

14. “From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”

15. “Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”

16. “Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

17. “Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.”

18. “He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman’s daughter. So far we are equal.”

19. “He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.”

20. “Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”