Book Review- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

This book written in 1808 is still a remarkable book showing a courtship between prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet and proud Mr Darcy. The English setting in this novel helps one to understand the class differences as dictated by wealth and society and the inheritance laws that excluded the females from inheriting the estates. This is why Mrs Bennet's sole purpose was to see her five daughters well married. It was wonderful quotes that I would love to share.

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

This is the first sentence of Pride and Prejudice and stands as one of the most famous first lines in literature

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

"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 sex.”