The 12 Most Quotable Lines of Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice was first published January 28, 1813, and for this, millions of readers can be thankful. Fans of the novel probably know that Mr. Darcy's commencement name is Fitzwilliam, that Elizabeth Bennet tin ability-walk and merchandise witticisms with the best of them, and that the novel of manners was Jane Austen's second, afterwardsSense and Sensibility. And we all know that Austen'southward wry sense of humor finds a perfect outlet in the repartee betwixt Darcy and Elizabeth, making it one of the most quotable books of the nineteenth century. Hither are twelve favorite lines fromPride and Prejudice. What are yours?

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"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a unmarried man in possession of a adept fortune must be in want of a wife."

"Vanity and pride are unlike things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others retrieve of us."

"There is so much of gratitude or vanity in near every attachment that it is non safe to get out whatever to itself. Nosotros tin can all begin freely ― a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of united states who take eye enough to be really in love without encouragement."

"Happiness in wedlock is entirely a affair of risk. If the dispositions of the parties are ever then well known to each other, or always then like beforehand, it does non advance their felicity in the least. They always go along to abound sufficiently unlike after to have their share of vexation, and it is better to know equally little equally possible of the defects of the person with whom yous are to laissez passer your life."

"I am astonished, my love... that y'all should be so prepare to think your own children silly. If I wished to call back slightingly of everyone'south children, it should not exist of my own however."

"I have been used to consider verse as the food of dear."

"I declare later all in that location is no enjoyment similar reading! How much sooner one tires of annihilation than of a book!"

"The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous past a person whose first object in life is a joke."

"It is particularly encumbent on those who never modify their stance to be secure of judging properly beginning."

"Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?"

"I should infinitely prefer a book."

"One may exist continually calumniating without saying anything just; but i cannot be always laughing at a man without at present and and then stumbling on something witty."