Quotes from:PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
by: Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
–Chapter 1
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
–Chapter 5
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.
–Chapter 5
If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.
–Chapter 6
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
–Chapter 6
Your mother insists upon you marrying Mr Collins.From this day onward中摘抄，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.