pride and prej

• Lizzy

  I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men 3

  I could easily forgive his pride if he had not mortified mine 5

  I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any 8

  And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody 11
• Lizzy

  she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man's affection.. she was at first sorry for the pain he was to receive till roused to resentment by his subsequent language 34

  she lost all compassion in anger.. i have never desired your good opinion and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly 34

  how despicable I have acted!.. vanity not love has been my folly.. i have courted prepossession and ignorance and driven reason away 36
• Darcy


  she is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me 3

  darcy was clever. he was at the same time haughty, reserved and fastidious and his manners, though well-bred were not inviting 4

  he spoke well; but there were feelings beside those of the heart to be detailed.. his sense of her inferiority, of its being degradation, of the family obstacles which judgement had always opposed to inclination.. was very unlikley to recommend his suit 11

  he spoke of apprehension and anxiety but his countenance expressed real security 11
• Darcy 


  i have no wish of denying that i did everything in my power to separate my friend from your sister, or that i rejoice in my success. towards him i have been kinder than towards myself 11

  i have been selfish all my life.. i ws not taught to correct my temper i was spoilt by parents who.. taught me to be selfish and overbearing

  by you, i was properly humbled. you showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased 58
• Jane

  Miss Bennet he acknowledged to be pretty, but she smiled too much 4

  To take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad belongs to you alone 4

  i would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think

  i have an excessive regard for Jane Bennet, she is really a very sweet girl 8

  who would willingly have gone through the world without believing that so much wickedness existed in the whole race of mankind, as was her collected in one individual 40

  the beauty of her sister rekindled the admiration of her former lover 53
• Lydia:

  ...Catherine and Lydia had been fortunate enough never to be without partners, which was all that they had yet learnt to care for at a ball."

  3

  Lydia, self-willed and careless, would scarcely give [Jane and Lizzy] a hearing. They were ignorant, idle, and vain. While there was an officer in Meryton, they would flirt with him 37

  But of this answer Lydia heard not a word. She seldom listened to anybody for more than half a minute, and never attended to Mary at all. 39
• Lydia

  I have bought this bonnet. I do not think it is very pretty; but I thought I might as well buy it.

  39

  She saw herself seated beneath a tent, tenderly flirting with at least six officers at once. 41

  You will laugh when you know where I am gone... for there is but one man in the world I love, and he is an angel. I should never be happy without him.

  Sign my name Lydia Wickham... What a good joke it will be! I can hardly write for laughing. 47 LETTER

  Lydia was Lydia still; untamed, unabashed, wild, noisy, and fearless. She turned from sister to sister, demanding their congratulations...

  51
• Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character." 1

  With a book he was regardless of time... 3

  ... if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness, if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders. 7

  Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do. 20
• For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? 57

  We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. Volume III: Chapter 17

  When Mr. Bennet arrived, he had all the appearance of his usual philosophic composure. He said as little as he had ever been in the habit of saying..." Chapter 48

  . "My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life. You know not what you are about." 59
• Mrs Bennet

  Mr. Bennet... You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.

  I have a high respect for your nerves. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years 1

  She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. 1

  The business of her life was to get her daughters married 1
• Mrs Bennet

  For nobody is on my side... I am cruelly used, nobody feels for my poor nerves...

  Nobody can tell what I suffer! 20

  "Three daughters married! Ten thousand a year! Oh lord!" 59

  "How rich and how great you will be! What pin-money, what jewels, what carriages you will have!" 59
• MR. COLLINS was not a sensible man... altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self- importance and humility 15

  My situation in life, my connections with the family of de Bourgh, and my relationship to your own, are circumstances highly in my favour,... I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me 19
• Mr COLLINS

  Mr. Collins to be sure was neither sensible nor agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary. 22

  When Mr. Collins could be forgotten, there was really a great air of comfort throughout, and by Charlotte's evident enjoyment of it, Elizabeth supposed he must be often forgotten. 30

  The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this. [...] you are grievously to be pitied,... for who, as Lady Catherine herself condescendingly says, will connect themselves with such a family?

  -Mr.Collins 48
• Wickham


  His appearance was greatly in his favour; he had all the best part of beauty, a fine countenance, a good figure, and very pleasing address Chapter 15

  The officers of the -shire were in general a very creditable, gentlemanlike set.. but Mr. Wickham was as far beyond them all in person, countenance, air, and walk. 16

  Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends.. whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain. 18
• Lady Cath


  Lady Catherine... likes to have the distinction of rank preserved. 29

  Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others. 29

  There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. 31
• Lady Cath

  You have no regard, then, for the honour and credit of my nephew!.Do you not consider that a connection with you must disgrace him in the eyes of everybody?" 56

  My daughter and my nephew are formed for each other... from the same noble line...(divided by) the upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune. 56
• wickham

  15- “the attention of every Lady was soon caught by a young man”

  15- “Mr Wickham was the happy man towards whom almost every female eye was

  turned”

  47- “Wickham will never marry a woman without some money”

  47- “he is an angel”

  52- “Wickham’s worthlessness had not been so well known”

  52- “Obstinacy is the real defect in his character after all”

  52- “Wickham still cherished the hope of more effectually making his fortune by marriage, in some other country”