The Best of Pride and Prejudice Tea Cup

Bone china tea mug. Best of Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Quotes All your favourite Pride and Prejudice quotes from Jane Austen. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow. 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 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 behaviour towards the undeserving of the other s e x. I am excessively diverted. An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do. It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.