While Prejudice with Pride
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
"In vain have I struggled. I will not to do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." Mr Darcy
"Yes, vainty is a weekness indeed. But pride where there is a real superiority in mind, pride will be always under regulation." Mr. Darcy
"Mr. Darcy: I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love. Elizabeth: I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."
“I have every reason in the world to think ill of you. No motive can excuse the unjust and ungenerous part you acted there. You dare not, you cannot deny, that you have been the principal, if not the only means of dividing them from each other—of exposing one to the censure of the world for caprice and instability, and the other to its derision for disappointed hopes, and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind.”Elizabeth to Mr. Darcy
“I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”Elizabeth
“You have said quite enough, madam. I perfectly comprehend your feelings, and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been. Forgive me for having taken up so much of your time, and accept my best wishes for your health and happiness.”Mr. Darcy
Mr. Darcy's letter to Elizabeth“Be not alarmed, madam, on receiving this letter, by the apprehension of its containing any repetition of those sentiments or renewal of those offers which were last night so disgusting to you. I write without any intention of paining you, or humbling myself, by dwelling on wishes which, for the happiness of both, cannot be too soon forgotten; and the effort which the formation and the perusal of this letter must occasion, should have been spared, had not my character required it to be written and read. You must, therefore, pardon the freedom with which I demand your attention; your feelings, I know, will bestow it unwillingly, but I demand it of your justice.”
“Two offenses of a very different nature, and by no means of equal magnitude, you last night laid to my charge.”
“ I will only add, God bless you.”Mr. Darcy's letter ending
"it has taught me to hope as I'd scarcely allowed myself before."
"If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed."
"But one word from you will silence me for ever."
"lf, however, your feelings have changed...
...I would have to tell you, "
"you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love...
I love... I love you."
"I never wish to be parted from you from this day on." Mr Darcy