Pride and Prejudice Quotes About Marriage

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Till this moment I never knew myself. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study? – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I had not thought Mr. Darcy so bad as this—though I have never liked him. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude,” replied Elizabeth, “have any possible claim on me, in the present instance. No principle of either would be violated by my marriage with Mr. Darcy. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I am not romantic, you know; I never was. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Your plan is a good one and I have great pleasure in complying with it. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

You must know… surely you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I’d scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Do anything rather than marry without affection. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

In vain have I 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. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I hope I never ridicule what is wise and good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. You must, of course, be aware that every moment of delay makes the story less probable. But neither Jane nor Elizabeth were comfortable on this subject. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this useful lesson: that loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention? – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I considered it as one of the first refinements of polished societies. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

In such cases as this, it is, I believe, the established mode to express a sense of obligation for the sentiments avowed. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I have not the pleasure of understanding you. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I admire the activity of your benevolence. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted? – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude, replied Elizabeth, have any possible claim on me. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I love you. Most ardently. Please tell me if the feeling is mutual. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I must confess that I think very highly of him. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I meant to be uncommonly clever this morning. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I could not answer it in any other way than by saying that I am ready, willing, and eager, to be the happiest of men through life, if you are inclined to make me so. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Surely you know that the idea of marrying you has always been eligible. – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice