Elizabeth Bennet Quotes – Words of Wit and Wisdom

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.

I dearly love a laugh.

I am excessively diverted.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own.

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

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

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

I could easily forgive his vanity, if he had not wounded mine.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony.

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding.

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

I would be the last person to approve of it.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.

You have no compassion for my poor nerves.

Till this moment, I never knew myself.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the present and future, as they are what you can shape.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.

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

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

I cannot fix on the hour, 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.

To be sure, you knew no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

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

I cannot bear to think that such a man, or such a marriage, could be thrown away.

I will not let myself be influenced by idle curiosity.

I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your ladyship. You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.

I should be exceedingly sorry to think so ill of him in the very beginning of our relationship.

I would not be so fastidious as you are for a kingdom! I am not attractive enough to please a man who can fall in love so easily.

Some little early attention to the proprieties of his life might have placed him here.

Till this moment, I never knew myself.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the present and future, as they are what you can shape.

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

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own.

I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print.

I dearly love a laugh.

That is a question which I hardly know how to answer.

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

You have no compassion for my poor nerves.

If the impertinent little head could but know my intentions.

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.