24+ Valuable Pride And Prejudice Book Quotes That Will Unlock Your True Potential

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
— Jane Austen

Valuable Pride And Prejudice Book quotations

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

Pride and prejudice book quote There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's bo — There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

Pride and prejudice book quote There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the w — There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

Pride and prejudice book quote Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death. — Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death.

But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are;

and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.

It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

Pride and prejudice book quote The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you — The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

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.

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

It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Pride and prejudice book quote You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop readin — You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind.

But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends;

for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

Pride and prejudice book quote I went away in my head, into a book. — I went away in my head, into a book.

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

Pride and prejudice book quote A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. — A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.

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.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level.

... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-one of those first mashup books-and then I went to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with my family.

Pride and prejudice book quote WIth freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy. — WIth freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy.

I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite,Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea; A Clinical Study. Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my "plan" was for taking down the Christmas tree.