True/False Statements and Quotes from Pride and Prejudice

Miss Ann de Bourgh, Lady Catherine's daughter, appears healthy and well-fed.

sickly & weak

Mr. Bingley refuses to visit Jane in London because he no longer likes her.

Darcy convinces him that she doesn't really love him

Mr. Darcy is primarily responsible for breaking up Mr. Bingley and Jane.

True

Mrs. Forster invites Lydia to go to Brighton.

True

Lydia mostly wants to go to Brighton to see the beach.

The soldiers

Elizabeth argues against Lydia going to Brighton.

True

Mrs. Bennet argues against in favor of Lydia going to Brighton.

False

Mr. Bennet believes that Lydia's embarrassing behavior will reflect poorly on the family.

only affect Lydia alone

Elizabeth

"The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it."

Jane

"Let me take it in the best light, in the light in which it may be understood."

Mr. Bennet

"What, has she frightened away some of your lovers? Poor little Lizzy!"

Mrs. Gardiner

"You are too sensible a girl, Lizzy, to fall in love merely because you are warned against it."

Darcy

"I certainly have not the talent which some people possess of conversing easily with those I have never seen before."

Fitzwilliam

"What he told me was merely this; that he congratulated himself on having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most imprudent marriage."

Lydia

"Lord, how ashamed I should be of not being married before three and twenty!"

Elizabeth

"Our importance, our respectability in the world, must be affected by the wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia's character."

Mr. Bennet

"You will not appear to less advantage for having a couple of—or I may say, three very silly little sisters."

Elizabeth

"I have every reason in the world to think ill of you."