“I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.
"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is
strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I
am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.”
― Pride and Prejudice
"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is
strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I
am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.”
― 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?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
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