145 Quotes About Pride-and-prejudice

I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size

Before I could reply, he had picked me up, literally swept me off my feet, and kissed me. And afterwards, when I tried to speak, he silenced me in much the same manner. It was a shock (but not at all distasteful) to be so caught up. Later - when he at last set me down - he handled me more gently. He took of my glasses and told me that he loved me.

Your defect is a tendency to judge everyone,' Ayesha said.'And yours,' he said with a smile, 'is to willfully misunderstand them.

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.

My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.