1008 – “You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”

-Fitzwilliam Darcy in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

886 – “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.”

–Mary Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

624 – “Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”

–Edward Gardiner in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

216 – “Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

–Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

158 – “Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”

–Fitzwilliam Darcy in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

88 – “But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”

– Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice