Pride and Prejudice Quotes.

1. "Who says great literatue has to be written by men? Who says great literature has to be about scary, creepy stuff like adulterers being punished and black slaves breaking loose and giant whales eating people? Why can't literature just be stories about women? Refined, respectable women have just as much to say as ignorant black slaves or bloodthirsty Indians or mad white whaling captains. Why do we have to pretend those people's lives matter more than our own?"
- Anna Quindlen, Pride and Prejudice

2. "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

3. "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

4. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

5. "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; 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 merit or sense."
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

6. "Angry people are not always wise."
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

7. "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."
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

8. "Vanity and pride are different 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 think of us."
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

9. "What are men to rocks and mountains?"
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

10. "There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice