Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 279 pages
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
"It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."
"I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love."
"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."
"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."
"My good opinion once lost is lost forever."
"We are each of 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."
"The expression of his face changed gradually from indignant contempt to a composed and steady gravity."
"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense."
"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all."
"My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me."
"I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never met before."
"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
"It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them."
"But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue."
"He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter, so far we are equal."
"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." [Mr.Darcy on how/when he begun to love Elizabeth]
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
"It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."
"I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love."
"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."
"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."
"My good opinion once lost is lost forever."
"We are each of 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."
"The expression of his face changed gradually from indignant contempt to a composed and steady gravity."
"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense."
"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all."
"My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me."
"I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never met before."
"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
"It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them."
"But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue."
"He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter, so far we are equal."
"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." [Mr.Darcy on how/when he begun to love Elizabeth]