Pride and Prejudice quotes

• pride: to find...


  "to find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate"lizzy is proud of her pride
• I have...

  "I have never desired your good opinion"lizzy uses phatic language to remain civil
• class: could you...


  "could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?"
• pride: but his...

  "but his pride, his abominable pride"
• pride: I, who have..

  "I, who have prided myself on my discernment!"
• pemberley: it was a...

  "it was a large, handsome building, standing well on rising ground."
• darcy: there is...

  "There is nothing he would not do for her" (Georgiana)
• darcy: fine...


  "fine eyes"
• darcy: he was the...

  "he was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world"
• darcy: she is...


  "she is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me"
• wickham: everybody declared


  "everybody declared that he was the wickedest young man in the world"
• love: a gulf...

  "a gulf impassible between them"
• wickham: wickhams character...

  "wickhams character had been so misunderstood"façade
• lady c: miss bennet...

  "miss bennet, do you know who I am?"
• class: young woman...

  "young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world"
• class: are the...

  "are the shades of pemerbley to be thus polluted?"
• class: she has no...

  "she has no money, no connections, nothing that can tempt him"
• love: the business...


  "the business of her life was to get her daughters married."
• love: darcy had never....

  "darcy has never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her"
• repuatation: there were some...

  "there was some very strong objections against the lady"
• reputation: Lydia - the...


  "Lydia - the humiliation, the misery, she was bringing on them all"
• prejudice: i have every...


  "I have every reason in the world to think ill of you"
• love/wealth: I ask only...


  "I ask only a comfortable home"
• darcy/love: how ardently....


  "how ardently I admire and love you"
• pride/prej: I could easily...

  "I could easily forgive his pride if he had not mortified mine"
• prej: till this moment...


  "till this moment... I never knew myself"
• jane: you never...


  "you never see fault in anybody"
• money: it is a truth...


  "it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife"
• lady c: Elizabeth felt...

  "Elizabeth felt the impertinence of her questions"
• class: the death...

  "the death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison to this"
• wealth: a single man...

  "a single man in possession of a large fortune"First thing Mrs b judges on
• love: I admire...

  "I admire and love you"darcys FIRST proposal to elizabeth
• pride: exceedingly...


  "exceedingly proud... she was only exceedingly shy"
• class and status: in spite...

  "in spite of that pollution"
• reputation: let me thank...

  "let me thank you again and again, in the name of all my family"
• lizzy: obstinate...


  "obstinate, headstrong girl"
• lizzy: you give your...


  "you give you opinion very decidedly for so young a person"
• lizzy: i do...


  "i do, i do like him... i love him"
• lizzy: perhaps...

  "perhaps i did not always love him so well as i do now"
• darcy: how they...


  "how they have tortured me"