Pride and prejudice key quotes

The business of her life

was to get her daughters married

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man

in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

One has got all the goodness,

And the other all the appearance of it

A women of mean understanding,

Little information, and uncertain temper

I could easily forgive his pride

If he had not mortified mine!

You take delight in vexing me.

You have no compassion for my poor nerves

Are the shades of Pemberley

to be thus polluted?

You must allow me to tell you

how ardently I admire and love you

She is tolerable, but

not handsome enough to tempt me

Mary wished to say something very sensible,

but knew not how

Inferiority of

her connections

You taught me a lesson.

I was humbled

Happiness in marriage

is entirely a matter of chance

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world,

an everyone hoped that he would never come there again

she had been blind, partial,

prejudiced, absurd

I am not a romantic…

I only ask for a comfortable home

He has a right

To be proud

The death of your daughter

Would have been a blessing

She is the most beautiful

Creature I ever beheld

My good opinion once lost,

is lost forever

a fine countenance, a good gigure

And very pleasing address

You never seas a fault in anybody. All the world are good

and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in your life