The Best Pride and Prejudice Quotes
Brilliant quotes from the prolific writer, Jane Austen. She has given us the best stories of all time. Here is a collection of quotes from the book and the movie Pride and Prejudice.
Pride and Prejudice is loved by everyone because it shows actual flaws and emotions that prevent people from being happy. Love versus status and reputation is the central theme of “Pride and Prejudice.”
As they overcome their preconceived notions about class, wealth, and reputation and learn to perceive people without being influenced by their own vanity, the characters change and mature throughout the course of the narrative.
This tale of bravery, inner strength, and the search for true love has attracted a devoted following and been the subject of numerous cinematic adaptations.
We’ve collected a few Jane Austen quotes from Pride and Prejudice in this article.
Pride and Prejudice Marriage Quotes
1. “Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to play you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.”
—Jane Bennet
2. “I could easily forgive his pride if he had not mortified mine.”
– Jane Bennet
3. “We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
– Jane Austen
4. “Till this moment I never knew myself.”
– Jane Bennet
5. “You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”
– Darcy
6. “Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of both were overspread with the deepest blush.”
– Elizabeth Bennet
7. “She was convinced that she could have been happy with him when it was no longer likely that they would meet.”
-Jane Bennet
Quotes on Living Life to the Fullest
8. “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.”
-Elizabeth Bennet
9. “I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice.”
– Elizabeth Bennet
10. “I declare, after all, there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. “
– Miss Caroline Bingley
11. “I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”
-Elizabeth Bennet
12. “You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past, as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
– Elizabeth Bennet
Quotes on Pride and Vanity
13. “It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”
– Jane Bennet
14. “Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride—where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”
– Darcy
15. “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.”
-Mary Bennet
16. “Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
– Elizabeth Bennett
17. “Nothing is more deceitful… than the appearance of humility.”
– Darcy
18. “There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.”
– Darcy
19. “He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.”
– Mary Bennet
Quotes on Morals and Integrity
20. “Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh when she would rather have cried.”
– Jane Bennet
21. “You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused and interested you because I was so unlike them.”
– Elizabeth Bennet
22. “It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.”
– Elizabeth Bennet
23. “The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it, and every day confirms my belief in the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
– Elizabeth Bennet
24. “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.”
– Elizabeth Bennet
25. “Do you think that any consideration would tempt me to accept the man who has been the means of ruining, perhaps forever, the happiness of a most beloved sister?”
– Elizabeth Bennet
Famous Pride and Prejudice Quotes
26. “She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.”
-Jane Austen.
27. “If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”
– Jane Austen.
28. “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.
29. “A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill.”
-Jane Austen.
30. “Do not be in a hurry; the right man will come at last.”
-Jane Austen.
31. “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, and every day confirms my belief in the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
-Jane Austen.
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