pride and prejudice
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Elizabeth’s pride
”I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine” said after being called not handsome by MD ”
“Long before [the proposal] had taken place, my opinion of you was decided”
Mr wickham deceptive quotes
“He had all the best part of beauty, a fine countenance, a good figure, and very pleasing address.”
”Besides there was truth in his looks” pride in discernment, confident about her ability to judge others, undermined by Mr Wickham as seen in “I who have prided myself on my discernment” later
epiphany quote
”Till this moment, I never knew myself”
“I who have prided myself on my discernment”
elizabeth critiquing etiquette
”it is your turn to say something now… I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples”
“no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.”
elizabeth refusing mr collins
”You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who would make you so”
”Do not consider me now as an elegant female … but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart”
elizabeth naive to realities of marriage being a necessity of wmoen
”You shall not defend her, though it is Charlotte Lucas. You shall not change the meaning of principle and integrity”
Mr darcey pride
”Tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me”
”In vain I have struggled, it will not do. My feelings will not be repressed”
”Do you expect me to rejouce in the inferiority of your connections”
Calls her family situation an “obstacle”
"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."
”Discovered to be proud, above his company and above being pleased”
mr darcey being better
”We neither of us perform to strangers”
“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
mrs bennet quotes
”The business of her life was to get her daighters married”
”A single man of a large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”
mr bennet quotes
”You are over scrupulous surely” dismissive”
”[he] was contented with laughing at them, would never exert himself to restrain the wild giddiness of his youngest daughter"
“one cannot know what a man is really like by the end of a fortnight”, intensifier, first impressions
vs
four evenings may do a great deal”
Lydia’s effect on elizabeth’s family
”Her power was sinking; everything must sink under such a proof of family weakness, such an assurance of the deepest disgrace.”
”The humiliation, the misery she was bringing on them all”
Mr collins letter- “The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison to this”
”Let me advise you… throw off your unworthy child from your affection forever, and leave her to reap the fruits of her own heinous offence”
jane quotes
”Her look and manners were open, cheerful, and engaging—but without any symptom of peculiar regard.”
”If a woman conceals her affection…she may lose the opportunity of fixing him”(CL talking about Jane
”You never see a fault in anybody. All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes” ”
You are too good. Your sweetness and disinterestedness are really angelic”
”blind to the follies and nonsence of others”
mr collins quotes
‘begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellence of its cookery was owing’. (echoes romance poetry but FIS distances us)
‘suggesting and arranging such little elegant compliments”
‘escap[ing] out of Longbourn House […] to Lucas Lodge to throw himself at [Charlotte’s] feet’ parody of romantic hero
”Firstly…secondly…thirdly”
”Assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection” fails to inject passion ”
By no means certain that another offer of marriage may ever be made to you”
”duty” idea
dismissing her refusal as ‘merely words’
he concludes his speech with the line ‘when we are married’
refusal is part of the coquetry and flirtation as part of the ‘usual practice of elegant females’
(quoting early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft) a ‘rational creature’
Mr Collins earlier speaks scathingly of the ‘scope of [Lizzy’s] understanding’, again assuming a lack of education despite his insincere use of a superlative in declaring the ‘highest opinion’ of her judgement
charlotte lucas quotes
”if a woman conceals her affection… she may lose the opportunity of fixing him”
”happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance”
"I am not romantic, you know. I never was. I ask only a comfortable home;
lady catherine and miss bingley/similar quotes
”Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?”
”Though I know it must be a scandalous falsehood, though I would not injure him so much as to assume the truth of it possible”
“She really looked almost wild”
“Why must she be scampering about the country… her hair so untidy, so blowsy!”
expectations of women
“must possess a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and modern languages”
Mary Wollestonecraft quotes
A vindication of the rights of women
“false system of education”
in order to “rise in the world” women must “marry advantageously and to this object their time is sacrificed”
Priscilla Wakefield quotes
1798 - “best years of improvement are sacrificed to the attainment of attractive qualities”
Virginia Woolf quotes
“moment of being”
Enlightenment philosphers
“tabula rasa” - the mind begins as a blank slate and opinions are formed by experience rather than logic or fact
17th and 18th century ideas about knowing one another linking to prejudice and first impressions