Pride and Prej quotes

• "to find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate"

  
  

  lizzy is proud of her pride
• "I have never desired your good opinion"

  
  

  lizzy uses phatic language to remain civil
• "could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?"
• "but his pride, his abominable pride"
• "I, who have prided myself on my discernment!"
• "it was a large, handsome building, standing well on rising ground."
• "There is nothing he would not do for her" (Georgiana)
• "fine eyes"
• "he was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world"
• "she is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me"
• "everybody declared that he was the wickedest young man in the world"
• "a gulf impassible between them"
• "wickhams character had been so misunderstood"

  
  

  façade
• "miss bennet, do you know who I am?"
• "young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world"
• "are the shades of pemerbley to be thus polluted?"
• "she has no money, no connections, nothing that can tempt him"
• "the business of her life was to get her daughters married"
• "darcy has never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her"
• "there were some very strong objections against the lady"
• "Lydia - the humiliation, the misery, she was bringing on them all"
• "I have every reason in the world to think ill of you"
• "I ask only a comfortable home"
• "how ardently I admire and love you"
• "I could easily forgive his pride if he had not mortified mine"
• "till this moment... I never knew myself"
• "you never see fault in anybody"
• "it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife"
• "Elizabeth felt the impertinence of her questions"
• "the death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison to this"
• "a single man in possession of a large fortune"

  
  

  First thing Mrs b judges on
• "I admire and love you"

  
  

  darcys FIRST proposal to elizabeth
• "exceedingly proud... she was only exceedingly shy"
• "in spite of that pollution"
• "let me thank you again and again, in the name of all my family"
• "obstinate, headstrong girl"
• "you give you opinion very decidedly for so young a person"
• "i do, i do like him... i love him"
• "perhaps i did not always love him so well as i do now"
• "how they have tortured me"