Top 54 Quotes About Jane In Pride And Prejudice

#1. But some characters in books are really real
Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.

Dodie Smith

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#2. How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!

Jane Austen

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#3. Elizabeth Bennet: I'm very fond of walking. Mr. Darcy: Yes... yes I know. (from Pride & Prejudice, the movie)

Jane Austen

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#4. But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

Jane Austen

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#5. Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.

Jennifer Paynter

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#6. They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Jane Austen

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#7. There are few of us who are secure enough to be within love without proper encouragement - Charlotte Lucas

Jane Austen

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#8. Hello, Mary.'
It was like hearing a note of divine calm after a dissonant passage of music. My confusion died away.

Jennifer Paynter

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#9. I have come to realise that your are the most important person in the world to me, and I wanted to know if you would consider ... if you would do me the honour of becoming my wife

C. Allyn Pierson

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#10. Miss Bingley was left to all the satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no on any pain but herself.
- Pride & Prejudice

Jane Austen

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#11. I had never in all my life felt so elated. Peter cared for me! It was a miracle I longed to celebrate - to tell all Hertfordshire - and I had to hold my hand to my mouth against an involuntary smile.

Jennifer Paynter

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#12. This made my father laugh. 'Mary made a cake, did she? Well, well. Better that than she should make a cake for herself, I suppose.'
Peter then burst out: 'Why must you always be making a game of Mary? 'Tis not fair; 'tis not sporting.

Jennifer Paynter

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#13. And Pride and Prejudice was the most stunning, bite-your-hand romance ever, the kind that stared straight into Jane's soul and made her shudder.

Shannon Hale

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#14. Obstinate, headstrong girl!

Jane Austen

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#15. If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

Jane Austen

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#16. The loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable - that one false step involves in her endless ruin - that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful - and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behavior towards the undeserving of the opposite sex.

Jane Austen

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#17. Quite definitely a Bingley

Lauren Willig

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#18. I saw that he was looking anxious.
'I thought you weren't coming.' As he spoke, he grasped my hand. And if the sight of him had not quite restored the magic, the touch of him most certainly did. 'You're not wishing yourself some place else, Mary?

Jennifer Paynter

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#19. Some people call him proud but I am sure I never saw anything of it. To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle away like other young men.

Jane Austen

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#20. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

Jane Austen

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#21. But really, and upon my honour, I will try to do what I think to be wisest; and now, I hope you are satisfied.

Jane Austen

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#22. I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good.

Jane Austen

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#23. And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

Jane Austen

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#24. Peter was now standing very close - as if he wanted to comfort me - as if he knew how hurt I felt that Mrs Knowles had not asked me to play or to sing. And I did feel comforted. It was as if a tide of warmth was carrying me out of myself, inclining me to trust him and to conduct myself well.

Jennifer Paynter

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#25. Sex sells, even to smart, liberated women, and Mr. Darcy was the smart girl's pinup boy.

Karen Doornebos

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#26. You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!

Jane Austen

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#27. I felt my mouth go dry, my throat constrict. What possible interpretation could Peter place on those words, other than that they were about him? - that the entire song was about him?

Jennifer Paynter

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#28. But look behind you, Mary.' She nodded towards the dais. 'One of the musicians seems to be trying to attract your attention.'
It was Peter. He was standing on the dais smiling across at me. My delight at seeing him was such that I could not disguise it - did not try to disguise it.

Jennifer Paynter

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#29. I found I could listen without envy to Letty's singing, and afterwards when the applause came, I did not mind that Mrs Knowles was heaping praises upon her. Peter's hands were on my chair, and when I leaned back I could feel them against my shoulders.

Jennifer Paynter

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#30. A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.

Jane Austen

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#31. I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.

Jennifer Paynter

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#32. May we take my uncle's letter to read to her? Take whatever you like, and get away.

Jane Austen

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#33. Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

Jane Austen

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#34. I might as well enquire," replied she, "why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

Jane Austen

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#35. The celestial brightness of Pride and Prejudice is unequalled even in Jane Austen's other work; after a life of much disappointment and grief, in which some people would have seen nothing but tedium and emptiness, she stepped forth as an author, breathing gaiety and youth, robed in dazzling light.

Elizabeth Jenkins

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#36. What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

Jane Austen

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#37. Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Jane Austen

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#38. I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

Jane Austen

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#39. If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

Jane Austen

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#40. I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]

Jane Austen

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#41. I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.

Jane Austen

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#42. But your good opinion is rarely bestowed and therefore more worth the earning.

Jane Austen

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#43. I should indefinitely prefer a book.

Jane Austen

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#44. Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Jane Austen

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#45. Ah yes.' Peter's tone was scornful. 'And they must always be paid before the poor tradesmen's bills, mustn't they?'
'They must indeed. They are debts of honour.'
'Oh, Mary.' He leant over and kissed me quickly. 'What a lot we'll have to argue about after we're married.

Jennifer Paynter

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#46. She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

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#48. It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before." Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

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#49. Men of sense do not want silly wives.

Jane Austen

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#50. What was she to think? Oh, teasing, teasing man! It would be so much easier if he could simply tell her what he meant by all his confusing actions. And so she had another shock: Jane Bennet was irritated with Mr. Bingley.

Elizabeth Adams

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#51. And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has
been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first
discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!"
"I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love," said Darcy.

Jane Austen

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#52. Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all.

Shannon L. Alder

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#53. At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song - a solemn, sweet song. (I know now that it was Beethoven's Romance in F.) I listened, and suddenly it was as if the fog that surrounded me had been penetrated, as if I were being spoken to.

Jennifer Paynter

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#54. 'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

Seth Grahame-Smith

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