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“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"

"For the liveliness of your mind, I did.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I do not cough for my own amusement.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.”
“Indeed I do not dare.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Arguments are too much like disputes.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Why is he so altered? From what can it proceed? It cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened... It is impossible that he should still love me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.”
― William Shakespeare

“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“He did apologize profusely. (Does anyone do anything profusely except apologize? Sweat, I guess.)”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“You're an idiot."
"I've never claimed to be otherwise.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night