pride & prej set 4: lizzy

pride?

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine”

“I, who have prided myself on my discernment!- I, who have valued myself on my abilities! [I have] gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust”

“He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal”

prejudice?

“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 upon to marry”

“Till this moment I never knew myself”

“One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it”

marriage/love?

“you could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.”

“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.”

“She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes”

social class/status/money?

“I am very sensible of the honour of your proposals, but it is impossible for me to do otherwise than decline them . . . you could not make me happy”

“She had heard nothing of Lady C that spoke her awful from any extraordinary talents or miraculous virtue, and the mere stateliness of money and rank she thought she could witness w/o trepidation”

“Mrs Annesley, a genteel, agreeable-looking woman, whose endeavour to introduce some kind of discourse proved her to be more truly well-bred than either of the others [Elizabeth’s perspective, FID]”

women in society?

“I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any . . . I never saw such capacity, and taste, and application, and elegance, as you describe, united”

“I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy”

“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”