Pride and Prejudice quotes: Elizabeth

‘She looks sickly and cross. Yes, she will do for him very well. She will make him a very proper wife'

Lizzy about Miss De Bourgh, showing her judgemental attitude and how a ‘sickly’ Miss de Bourgh will match Darcy very well.

'There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well’

Lizzy’s opinion of people she loves

cows, William Gilpin

what does Lizzy reference her siblings to when they go on a walk (from which author)

‘George Wickham has treated Mr Darcy in a most infamous manner'

what Caroline Bingley says to Lizzy about Wickham and Darcy

‘I dearly love a laugh’

Lizzy about laughing (sexual precociousness)

'the brilliancy which exercise had given to her complexion'

Darcy’s attraction to Lizzy’s physical energy

'You will laugh when you know where I am gone, and I cannot help laughing at myself at your surprise to-morrow morning’

Lydia’s laughter when she elopes which contrasts Lizzy’s

‘easy playfulness’

Lizzy’s description

‘I remember the time when I liked a red coat myself’

Mrs Bennet on liking red coats

‘two of the silliest girls in the country’

Kitty and Lydia description

‘studier of character’

ironic self description about characters

'She had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd'

how she feels about her misjudgement of Darcy

'Prided myself on my discernment!'

She knows she has pride

'have driven reason away'

Focus on reason

'I meant to be uncommonly clever in taking so decided a dislike to Mr Darcy without any reason'

focus on reason again but the antithesis - not having any reason

 'first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley'

when Lizzy tells jane she started to love Darcy

'seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence'

Caroline Bingley on Lizzy’s walk to Netherfield

‘The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it’

Lizzy on the world and society and how she doesn’t like it