Mr Darcy Quotes

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation.

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

I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.

She is tolerable, I suppose, but not handsome enough to tempt me.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.

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 forever.

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

I am not romantic, you know; I never was.

I cannot bear to think that anyone can have suffered as much as I have.

Angry people are not always wise.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

I cannot believe it. Why should they try to influence him? They can only wish his happiness, and if he is attached to me, no other woman can secure it.

I must, I must tell you how I admire and love you. You have bewitched me, body and soul.

I have faults sufficient to be taken lightly, and strengths sufficient to be taken seriously.

No, Miss Bennet, it is not for me to be driven away by jealousy. I have never yet met the man who was the better for it. Nor has he ever been the worse for it.

She had some art to feel it without habitually showing it. I have no such cleverness.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.

I cannot be so easily ensnared by flattery as you think. My feelings are not easily won.

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

Women are wise enough to discover things for themselves.

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.

My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.

I hardly know anyone who cannot do all this, and I am sure I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time, without being delighted by her sweetness and beauty.

I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

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

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavor to conceal it, he must find it out.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.

I have no notion of loving people by halves. It is not my nature.

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

I would not trust you so near it as East Bourne for fifty pounds!

I have no pretension whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere.

It is well to think well of yourself and to proclaim it, if you do not, many will do so for you, particularly if you have a consummate skill in displaying your best qualities.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

It teaches me to hope as I had scarcely allowed myself to hope before.