Pride and Prejudice Quotes

I am reading Pride and Prejudice this month for the book club I am in with a few friends, some of whom blog.

I love to read. For this reason I started a "meme" that currently is sitting on my sidebar unused, If You Give a Mom a Book. Go figure. (Although, I did actually begin preparing for the first blog post of many in the series last night.)

I also love quotes from books. I often find myself writing down my favorite quotes on random slips of paper. Except they get misplaced, forgotten, or when I unearth said parchment a few years later I can't figure out what why I wrote the words down on paper. The paper then goes into the fireplace or the recycle can.

I figured that since my blog acts as the U-Haul storage garage for my brain that I would simply begin to log my favorite quotes on my little blog. I put in that nifty search button a few weeks ago, and have used it quite a bit for myself when hunting one of my recipes! Therefore, I will always be able to locate my favorite quotes now.

Enjoy the quotes. Ponder them.

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

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Mrs. Bennet: You have no compassion on my poor nerves.

Mr. Bennet: You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least."

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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

"While Mary is adjusting her ideas," he continued, "let us return to Mr. Bingley."

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From Mr. Darcy's brain: Miss Bennet he acknowledged to be pretty, but she smiled too much.

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A comment made from Elizabeth in regards to her walking 3 miles to see her sick sister: "The distance is nothing, when one has a motive; only three miles. I shall be back by dinner."

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What is accomplishment for a woman? Miss Bingley states that,

A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word: and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half deserved.

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"All this she must possess", added Darcy, "and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind, by extensive reading."