19 quotes — Appearance vs Reality 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
“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
“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me”
Mr Darcy · Chapter 3 (Meryton Ball)
“You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in y…”
Mr Collins · Chapter 48 (Letter about Lydia)
“Lady Catherine de Bourgh... has condescended to advise me to marry as soon as I …”
Mr Collins · Chapter 19
“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
“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