More quotes by Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.""And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.""And yours,"he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them."
"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."
"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."
"And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading."
"Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required."