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Best of Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Quotes All your favorite 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.