VOLUME 2 QUOTES- PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

[Chp. 24] "Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do"

Elizabeth

[Chp. 24] "Let Wickham be your man. He is a pleasant fellow, and would jilt you creditably."

Mr. Bennet

[Chp. 25] "Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"

Elizabeth

[Chp. 26] ""You are too sensible a girl, Elizabeth, to fall in love merely because you are warned against it"

Mrs. Gardiner

[Chp. 26] "I am not likely to leave Kent for some time. Promise me, therefore, to come to Hunsford."

Charlotte

[Chp. 27] "Her not objecting does not justify him. It only shows her being deficient in something herself—sense or feeling."

Mrs. Gardiner

[Chp. 28] "Lady Catherine is a very respectable, sensible woman indeed," added _______, "and a most attentive neighbour."

Charlotte

[Chp. 28] "Very true, my dear, that is exactly what I say. She is the sort of woman whom one cannot regard with too much deference."

Mr. Collins

[Chp. 28] "I like her appearance," said ________, struck with other ideas. "She looks sickly and cross."

Elizabeth

[Chp. 29] "But really, ma'am, I think it would be very hard upon younger sisters, that they should not have their share of society and amusement, because the elder may not have the means or inclination to marry early."

Elizabeth

[Chp. 30] "My eldest sister has been in town these three months. Have you never happened to see her there?"

Elizabeth

[Chp. 31] "My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

Elizabeth

[Chp. 31] "But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault— because I will not take the trouble of practising. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution."

Elizabeth

[Chp. 31] "I can answer your question," said ________, "without applying to him. It is because he will not give himself the trouble."

Fitzwilliam

[Chp. 32] "He must be in love with you, or he would never have called us in this familiar way."

Charlotte

[Chp. 32] "I have reason to think Bingley very much indebted to him."

Fitwilliam

[Chp. 34] "In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed."

Darcy

[Chp. 34] "In such cases as this, it is, I believe, the established mode to express a sense of obligation for the sentiments avowed, however unequally they may be returned. It is natural that obligation should be felt, and if I could feel gratitude, I would now thank you."

Elizabeth

[Chp. 34] "I have every reason in the world to think ill of you."

Elizabeth

[Chp. 34] "you were[are] the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."

Elizabeth

[Chp. 36] "Till this moment I never knew myself."

Elizabeth

[Chp. 37] "I am much obliged to your ladyship for your kind invitation," replied ________, "but it is not in my power to accept it. I must be in town next Saturday."

Elizabeth

[Chp. 39] "Look here, I have bought this bonnet."

Lydia

[Chp. 39] "They are going to be encamped near Brighton; and I do so want papa to take us all there for the summer!"

Lydia

[Chp. 39] "But I confess they would have no charms for me—I should infinitely prefer a book."

Mary

[Chp. 40] "There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it."

Jane

[Chp. 40] ""Well, Lizzy," said ______ one day, "what is your opinion now of this sad business of Jane's? For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day."

Mrs. Bennet

[Chp. 40] "Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart; and then he will be sorry for what he has done."

Mrs. Bennet

[Chp. 41] "You, who so well know my feeling towards Mr. Darcy, will readily comprehend how sincerely I must rejoice that he is wise enough to assume even the appearance of what is right."

Wickham

[Chp. 41] "In this danger Kitty also is comprehended. She will follow wherever Lydia leads."

Elizabeth

[Chp. 41] "We shall have no peace at Longbourn if Lydia does not go to Brighton."

Mr. Bennet

[Chp. 43] "Does that young lady know Mr. Darcy?"

Mrs. Reynolds (the maid)

[Chp. 43] "Yes, sir; but I do not know when that will be. I do not know who is good enough for him."

Mrs. Reynolds

start of next set

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"He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance, but that is all. I have nothing either to hope or fear, and nothing to reproach him with."

Jane Bennet

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it

Elizabeth Bennet

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

Mr. Bennet

I never saw a more promising inclination; He was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her

Elizabeth Bennet

My dear aunt, how could you think of it? Mr. Darcy may, perhaps, have heard of such a place as Gracechurch Street, but he would hardly think a month's ablution enough to cleanse him from its impurities, were he once to enter it

Elizabeth Bennet

I am not in love with Mr. Wickham; no, I certainly am not. But he is, beyond all comparison, the most agreeable man I ever saw — and if he becomes really attached to me — I believe it will be better that he should not. I see the imprudence of it.

Elizabeth Bennet

When she did come, it was very evident that she had no pleasure in it; she made a slight, formal apology for not calling before, said not a word of wishing to see me again, and was in every respect so altered a creature, that when she went away, I was perfectly resolved to continue the acquaintance no longer

Jane Bennet

Kitty and Lydia take his defection much more to heart than I do. They are young in the ways of the world, and not yet open to the mortifying conviction that handsome young men must have something to live on as well as the plain

Elizabeth Bennet

Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Where does discretion end, and avarice begin? Last Christmas you were afraid of his marrying me, because it would be imprudent; and now, because he is trying to get a girl with only ten thousand pounds, you want to find out that he is mercenary

Elizabeth Bennet

A man (Mr. Wickham) in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe. If she (Miss King) does not object to it, why should we?

Elizabeth Bennet

Thank Heaven! I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man (Mr. Collins) who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all

Elizabeth Bennet

what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

Elizabeth Bennet

I like her (Anne de Bourgh) appearance, She looks sickly and cross. Yes, she will do for him (Mr. Darcy) very well. She will make him a very proper wife.

Elizabeth Bennet

No governess! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without a governess! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your education.

Lady Catherine

I think it would be very hard upon younger sisters, that they should not have their share of society and amusement, because the elder may not have the means or inclination to marry early

Elizabeth Bennet

I must have my share in the conversation if you are speaking of music. 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.

Lady Catherine

You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy, by coming in all this state to hear me? But I will not be alarmed though your sister does play so well. There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

Elizabeth Bennet

My fingers do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault — because I would not take the trouble of practising. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.

Elizabeth Bennet

You are perfectly right. You have employed your time much better. No one admitted to the privilege of hearing you can think anything wanting. We neither of us perform to strangers.

Mr. Darcy

Mr. Collins appears very fortunate in his choice of a wife

Mr. Darcy

Yes, indeed; his friends may well rejoice in his having met with one of the very few sensible women who would have accepted him, or have made him happy if they had. My friend has an excellent understanding — though I am not certain that I consider her marrying Mr. Collins as the wisest thing she ever did. She seems perfectly happy, however, and in a prudential light it is certainly a very good match for her.

Elizabeth Bennet

Where there is fortune to make the expence of travelling unimportant, distance becomes no evil.

Elizabeth Bennet

What can be the meaning of this? My dear Eliza, he must be in love with you, or he would never have called on us in this familiar way.

Charlotte Lucas/Collins

And remember that I have not much reason for supposing it to be Bingley. 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, but without mentioning names or any other particulars, and I only suspected it to be Bingley from believing him the kind of young man to get into a scrape of that sort, and from knowing them to have been together the whole of last summer.

Col. Fitzwilliam

I do not see what right Mr. Darcy had to decide on the propriety of his friend's inclination, or why, upon his own judgment alone, he was to determine and direct in what manner that friend was to be happy. But, as we know none of the particulars, it is not fair to condemn him. It is not to be supposed that there was much affection in the case.

Elizabeth Bennet

There were some very strong objections against the lady," were Colonel Fitzwilliam's words; and these strong objections probably were, her having one uncle who was a country attorney, and another who was in business in London

Elizabeth Bennet

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you

Mr. Darcy

I have never desired your good opinion, and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly. I am sorry to have occasioned pain to any one.

Elizabeth Bennet

And this is all the reply which I am to have the honour of expecting! I might, perhaps, wish to be informed why, with so little endeavour at civility, I am thus rejected. But it is of small importance

Mr. Darcy

I might as well inquire, why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character? Was not this some excuse for incivility, if I was uncivil? But I have other provocations. You know I have. Had not my own feelings decided against you — had they been indifferent, or had they even been favourable, do you think that any consideration would tempt me to accept the man who has been the means of ruining, perhaps forever, the happiness of a most beloved sister?

Elizabeth Bennet

these offences might have been overlooked, had not your pride been hurt by my honest confession of the scruples that had long prevented my forming any serious design. These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I, with greater policy, concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by reflection, by everything. But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence. Nor am I ashamed of the feelings I related. They were natural and just. Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connexions? — to congratulate myself on the hope of relations, whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?

Mr. Darcy

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

Elizabeth Bennet

From the very beginning — from the first moment, I may almost say — of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form that groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immoveable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry

Elizabeth Bennet

I have been walking in the grove some time in the hope of meeting you. Will you do me the honour of reading that letter?

Mr. Darcy

Be not alarmed, madam, on receiving this letter, by the apprehension of its containing any repetition of those sentiments or renewal of those offers which were last night so disgusting to you. I write without any intention of paining you, or humbling myself, by dwelling on wishes which, for the happiness of both, cannot be too soon forgotten

Mr. Darcy

The situation of your mother's family, though objectionable, was nothing in comparison of that total want of propriety so frequently, so almost uniformly betrayed by herself, by your three younger sisters, and occasionally even by your father.

Mr. Darcy

How despicably have I acted! I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable distrust. How humiliating is this discovery! yet, how just a humiliation! Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.

Elizabeth Bennet

I can from my heart most cordially wish you equal felicity in marriage. My dear Charlotte and I have but one mind and one way of thinking. There is in everything a most remarkable resemblance of character and ideas between us. We seem to have been designed for each other.

Mr. Collins

We have dined nine times at Rosings, besides drinking tea there twice! How much I shall have to tell!

Maria Lucas

And how much I shall have to conceal.

Elizabeth Bennet

Good Heaven! Brighton, and a whole campful of soldiers, to us, who have been overset already by one poor regiment of militia, and the monthly balls of Meryton

Elizabeth Bennet

Lord! how I should like to be married before any of you! and then I would chaperon you about to all the balls.

Lydia Bennet

This will not do, you never will be able to make both of them good for anything. Take your choice, but you must be satisfied with only one. There is but such a quantity of merit between them; just enough to make one good sort of man; and of late it has been shifting about pretty much. For my part, I am inclined to believe it all Mr. Darcy's; but you shall do as you chuse.

Jane Bennet

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it

Elizabeth Bennet

One may be continually abusive without saying anything just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Elizabeth Bennet

A little sea-bathing would set me up for ever

Mrs. Bennet

Lydia will never be easy till she has exposed herself in some public place or other, and we can never expect her to do it with so little expense or inconvenience to her family as under the present circumstances.

Mr. Bennet

If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself and her family ridiculous.

Elizabeth Bennet

start of second set

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[Chp. 24] "Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do"

Elizabeth to Jane

[Chp. 24] "Let Wickham be your man. He is a pleasant fellow, and would jilt you creditably."

Mr. Bennet to Elizabeth

[Chp. 25] "Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"

Elizabeth to Mrs. Gardiner

[Chp. 26] ""You are too sensible a girl, ________, to fall in love merely because you are warned against it"

Mrs. Gardiner to Elizabeth regarding Wickham

[Chp. 26] "I am not likely to leave Kent for some time. Promise me, therefore, to come to Hunsford."

Charlotte to Elizabeth

[Chp. 27] "Her not objecting does not justify him. It only shows her being deficient in something herself—sense or feeling."

Mrs. Gardiner to Elizabeth about Wickham and Ms. King

[Chp. 28] "Lady Catherine is a very respectable, sensible woman indeed," added _______, "and a most attentive neighbour."

Charlotte to Elizabeth

[Chp. 28] "Very true, my dear, that is exactly what I say. She is the sort of woman whom one cannot regard with too much deference."

Mr. Collins to Charlotte regarding Lady Catherine

[Chp. 28] "I like her appearance," said ________, struck with other ideas. "She looks sickly and cross."

Elizabeth to Maria (fixed) about Anne de Bourgh

[Chp. 29] "But really, ma'am, I think it would be very hard upon younger sisters, that they should not have their share of society and amusement, because the elder may not have the means or inclination to marry early."

Elizabeth to Lady Catherine

[Chp. 30] "My eldest sister has been in town these three months. Have you never happened to see her there?"

Elizabeth to Darcy

[Chp. 31] "My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

Elizabeth to Darcy

[Chp. 31] "But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault— because I will not take the trouble of practising. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution."

Elizabeth to Darcy (Fitzwilliam listening) [A metaphor about what Darcy said about not being good at talking to people.]

[Chp. 31] "I can answer your question," said ________, "without applying to him. It is because he will not give himself the trouble."

Fitzwilliam to Elizabeth (speaking well of Darcy)

[Chp. 32] "He must be in love with you, or he would never have called us in this familiar way."

Charlotte to Elizabeth

[Chp. 32] "I have reason to think Bingley very much indebted to him."

Fitwilliam to Elizabeth about Darcy's involvement with Bingley and Jane

[Chp. 34] "In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed."

Darcy to Elizabeth