70 Best Book Quotes

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Book Self-Reflection Growth Redemption Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Do anything rather than marry without affection.
Book Marriage Love Integrity Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.
Book Humility Love Self-Improvement Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.
Book Love Emotion Introspection Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her.
Book Love Compatibility Realization Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
Book Love Humor Irony Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony.
Book Love Marriage Independence Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will no longer be repressed.
Book Love Passion Vulnerability Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.
Book Love Perception Honesty Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Book Love Society Strategy Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.
Book Love Humility Surprise Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
Book Vanity Self-Deception Wisdom Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride—where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
Book Pride Vanity Self-Control Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
Book Vanity Regret Self-Reflection Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Nothing is more deceitful... than the appearance of humility.
This quote warns that humility, when displayed outwardly, can sometimes be a disguise for deceit or manipulation. The speaker suggests that what appears to be modesty may actually be a calculated act meant to gain favor or manipulate others' perceptions. It highlights the idea that true humility is internal and genuine, not something that can be easily faked for personal gain.
Book Deception Humility Irony Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Pride is a very common failing... I am convinced that it is very common indeed.
Book Pride Human Nature Flaws Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.
Book Human Nature Flaws Philosophy Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.
Book Pride Judgment Society Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness.
Book Happiness Independence Resolve Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere.
This quote points out that pretending to be straightforward or sincere, often referred to as "candour," is a common form of affectation—something that people do to appear more honest or open than they really are. The speaker suggests that many people put on a façade of transparency, but it is rarely genuine. It highlights how appearances can be misleading, and people sometimes use false sincerity to gain trust or manipulate situations.
Book Honesty Hypocrisy Society Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
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