Pride and prejudice key quotes

The business of her life

was to get her daughters married

I have every reason in the world

To think ill of you

Obstinate,

Headstrong girl!

Neither sensible

Nor agreeable

oh! No- it is not for me to be

Driven away by Mr Darcy

but I am afraid

He has turned out very wild

Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony,

Marriage had always been her object

A mixture of quick parts, sarcastic

Humour, reserve, and caprice

I cannot fix on the hour, or the door, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation…

I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun

She answered him

With cold civility

You could not

Make me happy

She was persuaded to believe herself in love,

And to consent to an elopement

Mr Wickham is beyond all compassion, the most agreeable man

I ever saw, and…Oh! That abominable Mr Darcy

appearance greatly in his favour, all the

Best parts of beauty, fine countenance, good figure

I was given good principle,

but left to follow them in pride and conceit

A single man

Of large fortune

Make the most of every half hour…

…secure of him

She likes to have

The distinction of the ranks preserved

All this she must possess…and to all this

She must yet add something more substantial

My courage always rises

With every attempt to intimidate me

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man

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

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will,

in my own opionion, constitute my happiness

We are to be

The happiest couple in the world

For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him.

Proud that in accused of compassion and honour, he had been able to get the better of himself

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

I am a

Gentleman's daghter

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

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,

and 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

Right honourable

Lady Catherine

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

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

She felt that to be the

Mistress of pemberley might be something!