Best quotes from Pride and Prejudice

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

You have bewitched me body and soul. And I love...I love...I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

- Mr. Darcy

The distance is nothing when one has motive.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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?