Pride and Prejudice Quotations
It is a truth universally
acknowledged that a single man in
possession of a good fortune must
be in want of a wife.
Chapter 1
Are the shades of Pemberley to be
thus polluted?
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Chapter 56
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You chose to tell me that you liked me
against your will, against your reason,
and even, against your character.
Elizabeth Bennet
Chapter 34
But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Pleased
with the preference of one, and offended
by the neglect of the other … I have courted
prepossession and ignorance, and driven
reason away where either was concerned.
Till this moment I never knew myself.
Elizabeth Bennet about
Mr Darcy and George Wickham
Chapter 56
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You take delight in vexing me. You have no
compassion on my poor nerves.
You mistake me my dear. I have a high
respect for your nerves. They are my old
friends. I have heard you mention them with
consideration these twenty years at least.
Mrs and Mr Bennet
Chapter 1
Can he be a sensible man, Sir?
No my dear; I think not. I have great hopes
of finding him quite the reverse. There is a
mixture of servility and self-importance in
his letter which promises well.
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Bennet discuss Mr Collins
Chapter 13
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I did hear too that there was a time when
sermon-making was not so palatable to
you as it seems to be at present; that you
actually declared your resolution of never
taking orders, and that the business had
been compromised accordingly.
Elizabeth Bennet to George Wickham
Chapter 52
The situation of your mother’s family,
though objectionable, was as nothing in
comparison of that total want of propriety
so frequently, so almost uniformly betrayed
by herself, by your three younger sisters,
and occasionally even by your father.
Mr Darcy
Chapter 35
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Darcy was clever. He was at the
same time haughty, reserved, and
fastidious, and his manners, though
well bred, were not inviting.
Chapter 4
Lydia – the humiliation, the misery, she
was bringing on them all, soon swallowed
up every private care, and covering her
face with her handkerchief, Elizabeth was
soon lost to everything else.
Chapter 46
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I have faults enough, but they are not,
I hope, of understanding … My temper
would perhaps be called resentful. – My
good opinion once lost is lost forever.
Mr Darcy
Chapter 11
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