PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
By Jane Austen
Miss Bingley - "How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! - When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." (Chapter XI)
Elizabeth to Mr. Darcy -" ...I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds. we are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the e'clat of a proverb." (Chapter XVIII)
Elizabeth to Mr. Collins-" I do assure you , sir, that I have no pretension whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart." ( Chapter XIX)
Elizabeth to Jane - " 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 I am dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense. ( Chapter XXIV)
Elizabeth to Mrs. Gardiner - " 'An excellent consolation in its way,' said Elizabeth ,'but it will not do for us. We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl, whom he was violently in love with only a few days before.' "( Chapter XXV)
Elizabeth to Jane -" Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all." ( Chapter XXVII)
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