The best Pride and Prejudice quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

The distance is nothing when one has motive.

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

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

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?