Favorite Quotes from Pride and Prejudice

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behavior towards the undeserving of the other sex.

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

Elizabeth