More Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (opening lines) Quotes

1. "Only a novel"... in short, only some work in whic ...
   
2. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ...
   
3. A woman should never be trusted with money. ...
   
4. An artist cannot do anything slovenly. ...
   
5. At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. I ...
   
6. But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perv ...
   
7. Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose the ...
   
8. For what do we live, but to make sport for our nei ...
   
9. Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pa ...
   
10. How much I love every thing that is decided and op ...
    
11. Human nature is so well disposed towards those who ...
    
12. I always deserve the best treatment because I neve ...
    
13. I cannot think well of a man who sports with any w ...
    
14. I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves ...
    
15. I pay very little regard...to what any young perso ...
    
16. If any one faculty of our nature may be called mor ...
    
17. In all the important preparations of the mind she ...
    
18. In every power, of which taste is the foundation, ...
    
19. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a sin ...
    
20. It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woma ...
    
21. It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as t ...
    
22. Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings. ...
    
23. Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with w ...
    
24. Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not ...
    
25. Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is al ...
    
26. Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must hav ...
    
27. One cannot be always laughing at a man without now ...
    
28. One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural ...
    
29. One does not love a place the less for having suff ...
    
30. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasu ...
    
31. Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to ...
    
32. Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done ...
    
33. The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond th ...
    
34. The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not p ...
    
35. There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is ...
    
36. There will be little rubs and disappointments ever ...
    
37. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives yo ...
    
38. Those who do not complain are never pitied. ...
    
39. To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon ve ...
    
40. We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of ...
    
41. We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we wou ...
    
42. We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that ei ...
    
43. What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in ...
    
44. Where any one body of educated men, of whatever de ...
    
45. Where so many hours have been spent in convincing ...
    
46. Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is h ...
    
47. Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run wil ...
    
48. You have delighted us long enough. ...
    
49. You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only o ...