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

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

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

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 am I dissatisfied with it.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

In vain have I 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.

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

My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Pride and Prejudice