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

 

31. “I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”

32. “I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.”

33. “I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”

34. “I love you. Most ardently.”

35. “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”

36. “If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”

37. “In nine cases out of ten a woman had better show more affection than she feels.”

38. “In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will no longer be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

39. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

40. “It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.”