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

 

21. “How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.”

22. “I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.”

23. “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.”

24. “I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”

25. “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.”

26. “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”

27. “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 excellent library.”

28.  “I do not cough for my own amusement.”

29. “I do not find it easy to talk to people I don’t know.”

30. “I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”