# Pride and Prejudice Tags: #literature ## Metadata * Author: [Jane Austen](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B0BMGW1PLK * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMGW1PLK * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BMGW1PLK) ## Highlights “but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.” — location: [479](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BMGW1PLK&location=479) ^ref-58475 --- Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are young men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not be like other travellers, without being able to give one accurate idea of anything. We will know where we have gone—we will recollect what we have seen. Lakes, mountains, and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarreling about its relative situation. Let our first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travellers.” — location: [2232](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BMGW1PLK&location=2232) ^ref-8941 --- “In vain I have 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.” — location: [2709](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BMGW1PLK&location=2709) ^ref-44850 --- and, from the ignorance and emptiness of her mind, wholly unable to ward off any portion of that universal contempt which her rage for admiration will excite. — location: [3290](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BMGW1PLK&location=3290) ^ref-11325 --- We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing. — location: [4855](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BMGW1PLK&location=4855) ^ref-14805 --- I know your disposition, Lizzy. I know that you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband; unless you looked up to him as a superior. Your lively talents would place you in the greatest danger in an unequal marriage. You could scarcely escape discredit and misery. My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life. You know not what you are about.” — location: [5357](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BMGW1PLK&location=5357) ^ref-42734 --- “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.” — location: [5399](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BMGW1PLK&location=5399) ^ref-50990 ---