37 quotes with full 6-part analysis
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a goo…”
Narrator · Chapter 1, Opening Line
“Your pride... his pride... for you are really proud of your defects in understan…”
Elizabeth Bennet · Volume 3, Chapter 15
“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You…”
Mr Darcy · Volume 2, Chapter 11 (First Proposal)
“You are mistaken, Mr Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration aff…”
Elizabeth Bennet · Volume 2, Chapter 11 (First Proposal Refusal)
“Till this moment I never knew myself”
Elizabeth Bennet · Volume 2, Chapter 13 (After Darcy's letter)
“My good opinion once lost is lost for ever”
Mr Darcy · Volume 1, Chapter 11
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the wil…”
Elizabeth Bennet · Chapter 31
“You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I w…”
Mr Darcy · Chapter 58 (Second Proposal)
“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me”
Mr Darcy · Chapter 3 (Meryton Ball)
“A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing f…”
Mrs Bennet · Chapter 1
“If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield, and all the…”
Mrs Bennet · Chapter 3
“You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves”
“I am sure I cried for two days together when Colonel Miller's regiment went away…”
Mrs Bennet · Chapter 7
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in …”
Mr Bennet · Chapter 57
“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a str…”
Mr Bennet · Chapter 20
“I am heartily ashamed of myself, Lizzy. But don't despair — it will pass, and no…”
Mr Bennet · Chapter 48 (After Lydia's Elopement)
“Your mother will never be easy till she has exposed herself in every town in Eng…”
Mr Bennet · Chapter 41
“You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in y…”
Mr Collins · Chapter 48 (Letter about Lydia)
“My reasons for marrying are, first, that I think it a right thing for every cler…”
Mr Collins · Chapter 19 (Proposal to Elizabeth)
“Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effec…”
Mr Collins · Chapter 19
“Lady Catherine de Bourgh... has condescended to advise me to marry as soon as I …”
“I have been used to have my opinion consulted in all matters. I am not in the ha…”
Lady Catherine de Bourgh · Chapter 56 (Confrontation with Elizabeth)
“Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?”
Lady Catherine de Bourgh · Chapter 56
“I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet. I send no compliments to your mother. You d…”
“She is a most charming young lady indeed. Lady Catherine herself says that in po…”
Lady Catherine de Bourgh (via Mr Collins) · Chapter 14
“Mr Darcy can please where he chooses. He does not want abilities. He can be a co…”
Wickham · Chapter 16 (First conversation with Elizabeth)
“A military life is not what I was intended for, but circumstances have now made …”
Wickham · Chapter 16
“Till I can forget his father, I can never defy or expose him”
“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle”
Wickham · Chapter 52 (via Lydia's account)
“He is just what a young man ought to be — sensible, good-humoured, lively; and I…”
Jane Bennet · Chapter 4
“I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I thi…”
“We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured”
Jane Bennet · Chapter 24
“I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!”
Jane Bennet · Chapter 55
“Oh! she is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld!”
Mr Bingley · Chapter 3 (Meryton Ball)
“I would not be so fastidious as you are... for a kingdom!”
“Whatever I do is done in a hurry... and therefore if I should resolve to quit Ne…”
Mr Bingley · Chapter 10
“I declare I do not know a more awful object than Darcy, on particular occasions,…”
Mr Bingley · Chapter 11 (Netherfield)