| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |  |
| " . . . I could easily forgive HIS pride, if he had not mortified MINE." | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |  |
| "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." | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |  |
| "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment." | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |  |
| "The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance." | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |  |
| "Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his MAKING friends--whether he may be equally capable of RETAINING them, is less certain." | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |  |
| Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society . . . | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |  |
| "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance." | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |  |
| "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |  |
| " . . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?" | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |  |