More quotes by Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner."(Elizabeth Bennett)"
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
"my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be..."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
"Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required."