Here are the best lines from Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's best-known novel, first published on January 28, 1813 as an anonymous work.
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-Giving in without conviction is not a compliment for understanding the other. -Mr. Darcy.
"I could have easily forgiven her pride, if it hadn't been for her messing with mine." –Elizabeth Bennet.
-I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said it before, but none with such reason. I'm even happier than Jane, she smiles, I laugh. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-I have been selfish all my life, in practice, but not in theory. -Mr. Darcy.
"I do not claim to be as frank with you as you are with me, madam. You may ask me questions that I may choose not to answer. –Elizabeth Bennet
-It is better to know as little as possible about the defects of the person with whom you are about to spend your life. -Charlotte Lucas.
-Happiness in a marriage is completely a matter of luck. -Charlotte Lucas.
-The follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies amuse me, they belong to me, and I laugh at them whenever I can. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-Don't think I'm an elegant woman trying to annoy you, but a rational creature telling the truth from her heart. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-No Lizzy, allow me for once in my life how much I've been to blame. I am not afraid of being dominated by this impression. It will pass soon. -Mr. Bennet
-Nothing is more deceptive than pretending humility. Often it is just an oversight of opinion, but other times it is an indirect boast. -Mr. Darcy.
-The power to do anything quickly is always valued by the possessor, and usually without any attention due to the imperfection of the execution. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-I have been meditating on the great pleasure that a pair of splendid eyes on the face of a beautiful woman can give you. -Mr. Darcy.
-It is a universally known truth that a single man, in possession of a good fortune, will be looking to get a wife. -Mrs. Bennet.
- There is, I believe, in each disposition, a tendency towards a particular evil, a natural defect that not even the best education can help to overcome. -Mr. Darcy.
-There are few people that I really love, and even fewer of those that I think well. The more I see this world, the more dissatisfied I am with it. Every day confirms my belief in the inconsistency of the human and the little dependence that can be had on the appearance of merit or meaning. –Elizabeth Bennet.
"As I understood it, there were strong objections against the lady." -Colonel Fitzwilliam.
-The imagination of a lady is very fast; leap from admiration of love, and from love to marriage in an instant. -Mr. Darcy.
-Just think about the past to the extent that remembering it brings you joy. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-There is a big difference between us. Accessories always take you by surprise, me, never. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-The feigned frankness is common enough, one finds it everywhere. But being frank without being presumptuous, taking the good in everyone, making them even better, and saying nothing of the bad, belongs only to you. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-These are great misfortunes. But Mr. Darcy's wife must have extraordinary sources of happiness, so that she generally has no reason to complain. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-I love him, in fact, he has no inappropriate pride. He is perfectly kind. You don't know what he really is, so pray that it doesn't hurt to talk about him in such terms. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-We all know that he is a proud and obnoxious type of man, but this would be nothing if you really liked him. -Mr. Bennet.
-It may be that poetry is the food of a solid and healthy love. Feed what is already strong. But if it is more of a slight, rather weak inclination, I am convinced that a sonnet can completely extinguish it. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-Only the deepest of loves would convince me to marry. That's why I'll end up as an old spinster. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-Laugh as much as you want, but you won't make me change my mind. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-Do everything, but do not marry without affection. –Jane Bennet.
-You could not have made me the offer of your hand, in a certain way that you would have tempted me to accept it. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-I am only determined to act that way, which as far as my opinion is concerned, will constitute my freedom without relying on you or any person so completely disconnected from me. –Elizabeth Bennet.
"I will not say goodbye to you, Miss Bennet." Nor will I send my regards to your mother. She does not deserve such attention. I am truly unhappy. –Lady Catherine de Bourg.
-Yes, but that was only when I first met her. It has been several months that I have considered her as one of the most beautiful women I know. -Mr. Darcy.
-Your defect is a predisposition to hate everyone. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-And yours is to stubbornly misunderstand them. -Mr. Darcy.
-You taught me a lesson, hard at the beginning of course, but most advantageous. Thanks to you, I learned to be appropriately humble. -Mr. Darcy.
-It is a great pleasure for you to occasionally express opinions that in fact are not yours. -Mr. Darcy.
-There is nothing as bad as celebrating with friends. You seem helpless without them. -Mrs. Bennet.
-Lizzy, are you okay? I thought you hated the man. -Mr. Bennet.
"Are those the words of a gentleman?" From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and arrogance, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, has made me realize that you would be the last man in the world that I would marry. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-Until this moment I never met. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-If I had ever learned, I would have been very skilled. Like Anne, if her health had allowed her to apply. I trust it would have performed wonderfully. –Lady Catherine de Bourg.
-I must learn to be satisfied with being happier than I deserve. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-Vanity and pride are different things, although they are often used as synonyms. A person can be proud without being vain. Pride has more to do with our opinion of ourselves, while vanity with what others think of us. –Mary Bennet.
-We do not suffer by accident. It is not often that the interference of friends persuades a young man of independent fortune to no longer think about the girl with whom he was so intensely in love a few days earlier. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-You have done extremely well daughter. You have delighted us enough. Let other young women have time to delight us. -Mr. Bennet.
-A month ago I received this letter, and two weeks ago I answered it, since I thought it was a case of extreme delicacy and that it required my early attention. -Mr. Bennet.
-When I was a child they taught me what was correct, but they did not teach me to correct my character. They taught me good principles, but they let me follow them with pride and conceit. -Mr. Darcy.
-No one ever knows what I suffer! But it is always like this. People never feel sorry for those who don't complain. -Mrs. Bennet.
"I have no pretense of possessing that kind of elegance that consists in tormenting a respectable man." -Elizabeth Bennet..
-A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write sick. –Caroline Bingley.
-My fingers do not move as skillfully as I see many women do. They do not have the same force or speed, and they do not produce the same expression. But I've always thought it's my fault, because I haven't bothered to practice. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-Don't let the shock overwhelm you. While it is okay to be prepared for the worst, there is no need to take it as true. -Mr. Darcy.
-What are men compared to rocks and mountains? –Elizabeth Bennet.
-After abusing your face so abominably, I will have no scruples in abusing you in all your relationships. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-I'm glad you have the talent to flatter so exquisitely. Could I ask you if these gratifying attentions come from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? –Elizabeth Bennet.
"You've said enough, ma'am." I fully understand her feelings and I can only feel sorry for what has already been. Forgive me for taking so much of your time and accept my best wishes for your health and happiness. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-The loss of virtue in a woman is irrecoverable, that misstep leads her to endless ruin, in such a way that her reputation is no less fragile than she is beautiful, and that she cannot be too cautious in her behavior towards those unworthy of the opposite sex. –Mary Bennet.
-You liked stupider people. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-One cannot always laugh at a man without running into something witty from time to time. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-There is a stubbornness in me that can never tolerate scaring me at the mercy of others. My courage always emerges with every attempt to intimidate me. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-Your taste for dance was one of the elements that contributed to their falling in love. –Jane Austen (Narrator).
-From this day you will be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you don't marry Mr. Collins. And I will never see you if you marry him. -Mr. Bennet.
-I am no longer surprised that you only know six fulfilled women. In fact now I wonder if you really know any. –Elizabeth Bennet.
- Isn't general incivility the true essence of love? –Elizabeth Bennet.
-After getting married, a girl likes to fall in love from time to time. –Elizabeth Bennet.
- Angry people are not always wise. –Jane Austen (Narrator).
-Yes. A thousand times, yes. –Jane Bennet.
-My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever. –Elizabeth Bennet.
-After all, I don't think there is any other pleasure like reading! You get tired of anything other than a book first! When I have my own home, I would be miserable if I didn't have an excellent library. –Caroline Bingley.
-I can't believe that someone really deserves you, but it seems that I was wrong. So I give you my consent. -Mr. Bennet.
-So that's your opinion of me. Thank you for explaining yourself so in detail. Perhaps these offenses could have been forgiven if his pride hadn't been hurt by my honesty. -Mr. Darcy.
- I have tried in vain. It will not be enough. My feelings will not be suppressed. I would like you to let me tell you how passionately I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy.
-She is a selfish and hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her. -Mrs. Bennet.
-Neither of us plays music to strangers. -Mr. Darcy.
-People usually change too much, so much so that there is always something new to observe in them always. -Mr. Bingley.
-She is tolerable, but not beautiful enough to tempt me. I'm not in the mood at the moment to give importance to young women who are looked down upon by other men. -Mr. Darcy.
-You expect me to answer for opinions that you choose to consider as my own, but that I have never acknowledged. -Mr. Darcy.
-What do we live for if not to make a sport of our neighbors and laugh at them on our turn? -Mr. Bennet.
-Can I use the carriage? –Jane Bennet.
-No, my daughter, you'd better go horseback riding, since it seems like it's going to rain, and then you'll have to stay overnight. -Mrs. Bennet.
-How little permanent happiness could experience a couple who joined just because their passions were stronger than their virtues. –Jane Austen (Narrator).
-You have greatly confused my character if you think that I can allow myself to be carried away by this type of persuasion. -Mr. Darcy.
Where does discretion end and greed begin? –Elizabeth Bennet.
-The distance is nothing when one has a motivation. –Jane Austen (Narrator).
-You showed me how insufficient all my pretensions were to please a woman worthy of being pleased. -Mr. Darcy.
-Even savages can dance. -Mr. Darcy.