Pride and Prejudice quotes 2 (Mr Bennet

‘of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper’

Mrs Bennet description

‘business of life’

Mrs Bennet’s …… is to get her daughters married

'it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife'

starting sentence of the book

'he is considered the rightful property […] of their daughters'

second sentence, focuses on ‘property’ and husbands

'[Elizabeth] looked forward to their entrance as the point on which all her chance of pleasure for the evening must depend'

Lizzy waits for men to arrive

'expected at every moment that some of the gentlemen would enter the room. She wished, she feared that the master of the house might be among them'

Lizzy waits for Mr Darcy to arrive

'five daughters successively entered the world, but yet the son was to come, and Mrs Bennet, for many years after Lydia's birth, has been certain that he would’

Mrs Bennet waits for a son

 'bare of news'

the country is ….

‘the dullness of everything’

how women feel about everything

'If you […] go on refusing every offer of marriage in this way, you will never get a husband at all’

Mrs Bennet to Lizzy about refusing proposals

‘there was truth in his looks’

Mr Wickham’s credibility due to his looks