Pride and Prejudice

By Jane Austen QUOTATION: A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
ATTRIBUTION: Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice, ch. 10 (1813).

QUOTATION: A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
ATTRIBUTION: Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, ch. 6 (1813).

QUOTATION: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
ATTRIBUTION: Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. Pride and Prejudice, ch. 1 (1813).

QUOTATION: Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
ATTRIBUTION: Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. Mary Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, ch. 5 (1813).

QUOTATION: One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
ATTRIBUTION: Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. Elizabeth Bennet, in Pride and Prejudice, ch. 40.

QUOTATION: For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
ATTRIBUTION: Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. Mr. Bennet, in Pride and Prejudice, ch. 57 (1813).

QUOTATION: Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
ATTRIBUTION: Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. Darcy, in Pride and Prejudice, ch. 10 (1813).

QUOTATION: Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
ATTRIBUTION: Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, ch. 8 (1813).

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