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 AustenTags: inspirational jane-austen comfort pride-and-prejudice
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.
Charlotte BrontëTags: jane-austen pride-and-prejudice charlotte-brontë
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.
Jane AustenTags: mr-darcy character pride-and-prejudice flaws temper
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 AustenTags: pride-and-prejudice
As for Elizabeth Bennet, our chief reason for accepting her point of view as a reflection of her author's is the impression that she bears of sympathy between them--an impression of which almost every reader would be sensible, even if it had not the explicit confirmation of Jane Austen's letters. Yet, as she is presented to us in Pride and Prejudice, she is but a partial and sometimes perverse observer.
Mary LascellesTags: elizabeth-bennet jane-austen pride-and-prejudice
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 AustenTags: pride-and-prejudice
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.
Jane AustenTags: mr-darcy pride-and-prejudice
Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
Jane AustenTags: jane-austen pride-and-prejudice lizzie
He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.
Lynn ViehlTags: humor pride-and-prejudice
They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
Jane AustenTags: mr-darcy elizabeth-bennet pride-and-prejudice parting
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