‘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.’
‘A woman, especially, if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.’
‘How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!’
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Some quotes inside this book:
‘But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.’
‘I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.’
‘And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. And yours, he replied with a smile, is willfully to misunderstand them.’
‘If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth’s change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise–if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defense, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorize her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.’
‘She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.’
‘How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!’
‘To you I shall say, as I have often said before, do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.’
‘I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.’
‘She was one of those who, having, once begun, would be always in love.’
‘But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.’
‘She was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily, disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquility to her heart.’
