16 Pride and Prejudice Quotes About Life and Love
Dating back to 1813, Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s second novel, and explores the expectations that society places on women - particularly within marriage and romance.
Despite its popularity, Pride and Prejudice was initially published anonymously and Austen only ever received an initial sum of £110, losing out on any further royalties. The first edition published in three separate volumes, before it was later compiled into the novel that it is today.
Pride and Prejudice has an enduring appeal that has seen it adapted into a number of films, stage shows and television series over the last 200 years. Most notably, this includes a 2009 film adaption that features Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennett, as well as a 1995 television series where Mark Darcy is portrayed by Colin Firth.
Here are some of the best quotes about love and life from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
Synopsis:
“When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever.
In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships,gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.”
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Quotes About Love
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
“Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of both were overspread with the deepest blush.”
“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”
“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love”
“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of”
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
“Do anything rather than marry without affection.”
Quotes About Life
"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.”
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
“Angry people are not always wise.”
“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
“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.”
"I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love."
"I should infinitely prefer a book."
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