Pride and Prejudice quotes

9x Quotes about elizabeth’s personality

1. she remained with no very cordial feelings towards him…she told the story however with great spirit among her friends

2. is not general incivility the very essence of love

3. i am not to be intimidated into anything so wholly unreasonable

4. I meant to be so uncommonly clever in taking so decided a dislike to him, without any reason

5. but slightly affected by the enumeration of the windows

6. should have walked 3 miles so early in the day, in such dirty weather, and by herself

7. what are men to rocks and mountains

8. these are heavy misfortunes

9. it is your turn to say something now Mr darcy

5x quotes about Elizabeth’s attitudes to marriage

1. better to know as little as possible

2. general incivility

3. you shall not…change the meaning of principle and integrity

4. determined that only the very deepest love could induce me into matrimony

5. I do, I do like him

12x Mr Collins /charlotte quotes

1. the violence of my affection. to fortune I am perfectly indifferent

2. your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications

3. does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy of your acceptance

4. bashful modesty

5. true delicacy of the female character

6. particular advice

7. Lady Catherine herself

8. very superior society

9. the death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparion of this

10. pure and disinterested desire of an establishment

11. her home and her housekeeping, her poultry and her parish

12. change the meaning of principle and integrity

6x Lady catherine quotes

1. delivering her opinion on every subject

2. sallied forth

3. there are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself. If i had ever learnt, i should have been a great proficient

4. your name will not be mentioned by any of us /these are heavy misfortunes

5. without family, connections, or fortune. is this to be endured! but it must not, nor shall not be

6. are the shades of pemberley to be thus polluted!

9x (plus 6) Social class quotes

1. all 6x LC quotes

2. it is a truth universally acknowledged

3. the utmost force of passion to put aside

4. your portion…

5. we are not rich enough, or grand enough, for them

6. society has claims on us all

7. were it not for the inferiority of her connections

8. indulged in their mirth for some time at the expense of their dear friend’s vulgar relations

9. how insupportable it would be to pass many evenings…in such a society…the nothingness and yet the self-importance of these people

10. my sweetest lizzy! how rich and how great you will be!

12x Mr Darcy quotes

1. the best landlord, and the best master, that ever lived

2. every savage can dance

3. your defect is a propensity to hate everybody…and yours is to wilfully misunderstand them

4. so bewitched as he was by her. he really believed

5. the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world

6. fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien

7. utmost force of passion

8. my conduct, my manners, my expressions…are now inexpressibly painful to me

9. it was unpardonable. i cannot think of it without abhorrence

10. Mr darcy felt their rudeness and immediately said

11. we neither of us perform to strangers

12. i thought only of you…you are too generous to trifle with me

4x Mr darcy’s pride

1. every savage can dance

2. so bewitched as he was by her. he really believed

3. the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world

4. utmost force of passion

4x Elizabeth’s prejudice (Darcy and wickham)

1. blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd

2. your defect…

3. i meant to be so uncommonly clever

4. his countenance, voice and manner had established him at once in possession of every virtue

8x Why Elizabeth and darcy are a good match quotes (both compatability and making each other happy)

1. it is your turn to say something now, mr darcy

2. your defect

3. we neither of us perform to strangers

4. so well able to expose my real character (vs bashful modesty)

5. I do, i do like him

6. i am the happiest creature in the world

7. his fine, tall person…

8. i thought only of you…you are too generous to trifle with me

10x Mr /mrs bennet quotes

1. it is a truth universally acknowledged

2. mr bingley might like you best of the party. my dear, you flatter me. i certainly have had my share of beauty, but i do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now

3. mean understanding, little information and uncertain temper

4. it was a fortnight since mrs bennet had been downstairs

5. i have high respect for your nerves. they are my old friends

6. your mother will never see you again if you do not marry mr collins, and i will never see you again if you do.

7. a family so deranged, a father absent, a mother incapable of exertion

8. Wherever you and Jane are known, you must be respected and valued; and you will not appear to less advantage for having a couple of . . . very silly sisters.

9. We shall have no peace at Longbourn if Lydia does not go to Brighton.

10. My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life.

5x Lydia /other bennet sisters (not jane) quotes

1. lord how ashamed I would be of not being married before three and twenty

2. what a good joke it will be

3. not equal to her’s for him

4. her was her dear wickham on every occasion

5. our importance, our respectability…

6x Mr wickham quotes

1. chief objective was unquestionably my sister’s fortune

2. his countence, voice and manner had established him at once in possession of every virtue

3. profligate in every sense of the word

4. his affection for her soon sunk into indifferenc; hers lasted a little longer

5. wickhams affection was…not equal to her’s for him

6. he was her dear wickham on every occasion

7x Miss bingley quotes

1. mentioned with raptures some plans…with regard to new furniture for mr darcy

2. elizabeth is one of those young women who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex, by undervaluing their own

3. that she should have walked 3 miles

4. i declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading

5. threw aside her book

6. indulged in their mirth for some time at the expense of their dear friend’s vulgar relations

7. how insupportable

7x Jane /Mr Bingley quotes

1. hope was over, entirely over

2. would have defended either, or both

3. how shall I bear so much happiness

4. mr bingley was the principle spokesman, and miss bennet the principle object

5. so easy, that every servant will cheat you; so generous, that you will always exceed your income

6. we have not met since 26th november (8 months ago)

7. had never met with pleasanter people or prettier girls in his life

6x reputation quotes (both broadly + specific characters)

1. without family, connections, or fortune. is this to be endured? but it must not, nor shall not be

2. our importance, our respectability in the world must be affected by the wild volatility…which [marks] Lydia’s character

3. he is the best landlord, and the best master, that ever lived

4. fine, tall person

5. proudest, most disagreeable man in the world

6. indulged in their mirth for some time

10x Importance of place/setting quotes (incl anything to do with pemberley)

1. pray forgive me if i have been very presuming, or at least do not punish me so far as to exlcude me from P

2. are the shades of pemberley to be thus polluted

3. to be mistress of pemberley might be something!

4. large, handsome, stone building, standing well on rising ground

5. neither formal, nor falsely adorned

6. must first date from my seeing his beautiful grounds at P

7. the best landlord…

8. declared he might almost have supposed himself to be in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings

9. was but slightly affected by his enumeration of the windows in front of the house

10. prospect of a ball at Netherfield ‘extremely agreeable to every female member of the family’

quotes about leisure time

1. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages

2. 3 miles so early in the day?

3. i declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading

4. threw aside her book

5. there are few people in england, i suppose

6. every savage can dance

7. extremely agreeable