Pride and Prejudice Quotes

“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are young men to rocks and mountains?”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:men

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:understanding pleasure

“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding—certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so...”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:understanding character

“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:beauty

“Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:reason feelings

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:change

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:education character

“We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:society

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:writing

“My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them—by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:writing thinking

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