Jane Austen Bennet Quotations

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

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.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.” -Elizabeth Bennet

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

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

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.

My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.