“However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.”
Mrs. Bennet: “When a woman has five grown up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.”
Charlotte: “It is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very guarded.”
Charlotte: “In nine cases out of ten a women had better show more affection than she feels.”
Charlotte: “If she were married to him tomorrow, I should think she had as good a chance of happiness as if she were to be studying his character for a twelvemonth.”
Charlotte: “Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
Mr. Bennet: “From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced”
Mr. Bennet: “Well, my dear,”…”if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness, if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.”
Elizabeth: “To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! Do not wish me such an evil.”
Elizabeth: “It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.”
Mr. Bennet: “An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
Mrs. Bennet: “Those who do not complain are never pitied”
Mr. Collins: “I have never observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation”
“The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance.” (JA refering to Mr. Collins)
“Mr. Bennet’s emotions were much more tranquil on the occasion, …for it gratified him, he said, to discover that Charlotte Lucas, whom he had been used to think tolerably sensible, was as foolish as his wife, and more foolish than his daughter!”
Elizabeth: “The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
Lady Catherine: “Upon my word,…, “you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. Pray, what is your age?”
Elizabeth: “With three younger sisters grown up,” replied Elizabeth, smiling, “your ladyship can hardly expect me to own it.”
Mr. Darcy: “In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
Elizabeth: “… do you think that any consideration would tempt me to accept the man who has been the means of ruining, perhaps for ever, the happiness of a most beloved sister?”
Elizabeth: “You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.”
Elizabeth: “From the very beginning-from the first moment, I may almost say-of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
“It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity-to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.”
“A scheme of which every part promises delight can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.”
“…above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of goodwill which could not be overlooked. It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.”
“It was, on the contrary, exactly calculated to make her understand her own wishes; and never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.”
“She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.”
“What a triumph for him, as she often thought, could he know that the proposals which she had proudly spurned only four months ago, would now have been most gladly and gratefully received!”
“Elizabeth had not before believed him (Wickham) quite equal to such assurance; but she sat down, resolving within herself to draw no limits in future to the impudence of an impudent man.”
“For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him. Proud that in a cause of compassion and honour, he had been able to get the better of himself.”
“A man who has once been refused! How could I ever be foolish enough to expect a renewal of his love? Is there one among the sex, who would not protest against such a weakness as a second proposal to the same woman? There is no indignity so abhorrent to their feelings!”
Chapter 56 (Elizabeth’s quarrel with Lady Catherine): I should quote the entire chapter, but I have chosen three of them:
Elizabeth: “If you believed it impossible to be true,” said Elizabeth, colouring with astonishment and disdain, “I wonder you took the trouble of coming so far.”
Lady Catherine: “Mr. Darcy is engaged to my daughter. Now what have you to say?”
Elizabeth: “Only this; that if he is so, you can have no reason to suppose he will make an offer to me.”
Elizabeth: “In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.”
“Her father had most cruelly mortified her, by what he said of Mr. Darcy’s indifference, and she could do nothing but wonder at such a want of penetration, or fear that perhaps, instead of his seeing too little, she might have fancied too much.”
Jane: “You are joking, Lizzy. This cannot be!-engaged to Mr. Darcy! No, no, you shall not deceive me. I know it to be impossible.”
Elizabeth: “Perhaps I did not always love him so well as I do now. But in such cases as these, a good memory is unpardonable. This is the last time I shall ever remember it myself.”
Mr. Bingley: “Mrs. Bennet, have you no more lanes hereabouts in which Lizzy may lose her way again today?”
Mrs. Bennet: “I am quite sorry, Lizzy, that you should be forced to have that disagreeable man all to yourself.”
Mr. Bennet: “Lizzy,” said he, “what are you doing? Are you out of your senses, to be accepting this man? Have not you always hated him?”
Mr. Bennet: “He is rich, to be sure, and you may have more fine clothes and fine carriages than Jane. But will they make you happy?”
Elizabeth: “Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?”
Mr. Bennet: “If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.”
Elizabeth (to Mrs. Gardiner): “I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
Mr. Bennet (to Mr. Collins): “Dear Sir: I must trouble you once more for congratulations. Elizabeth will soon be the wife of Mr. Darcy. Console Lady Catherine as well as you can. But, if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.”
“She looked forward with delight to the time when they should be removed from society so little pleasing to either, to all the comfort and elegance of their family party at Pemberley.”
“…with the Bingleys they both of them frequently staid so long, that even Bingley’s good humour was overcome, and he proceeded so far as to talk of giving them a hint to be gone.”
(About Lady Catherine): “… after a little further resistance on the part of his aunt, her resentment gave way, either to her affection for him, or her curiosity to see how his wife conducted herself; and she condescended to wait on them at Pemberley, in spite of that pollution which its woods had received, not merely from the presence of such a mistress, but the visits of her uncle and aunt from the city.”
“With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them.”
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