Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

Quotes from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen:

• I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
• There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
• Angry people are not always wise.
• Till this moment I never knew myself.
• My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
• The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
• Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
• It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
• Nothing is more deceitful... than the appearance of humility.
• There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.
• It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.