Memorable Quotes from Mr. Darcy

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

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

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, 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.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

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

My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

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

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

I am a gentleman’s daughter. I am equally determined to keep up my dignity, which, considering Mr. Collins’s character, connection, and situation in life, I am convinced I have great reason to do.

We neither of us perform to strangers.

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me.

I am exceedingly fond of music, and my friends say I am not entirely devoid of taste.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

I cannot be so easily persuaded as you do to think that any woman you adore can be completely unworthy of you.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

I might as well inquire why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, your reason, and even against your character.

In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

I am not romantic, you know. I never was.

My fingers, said Elizabeth, do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women’s do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression.

I confess myself at a loss to understand gentlemen.

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

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

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.

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

She had better have stayed at home and cried an hour or two.

I have often wondered at her myself; why she should marry a man whom she did not like or respect.

I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit.

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

It is very often nothing but their own vanity that persuades women to marry.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worth having.

Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy!

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

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

How very ill Eliza Bennet looks this morning, Mr. Darcy.

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

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

Perhaps it was his pride, more than his heart, that was wounded.

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention.

Miss Bingley’s attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr. Darcy’s progress through his book, as in reading her own.

She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me.

My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honorable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

I cannot forget the follies and vices of others as 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.

We were born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection.

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

In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

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