18 quotes — Class & Social Mobility 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)
“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
“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
“I would not be so fastidious as you are... for a kingdom!”
Mr Bingley · Chapter 3 (Meryton Ball)
“I declare I do not know a more awful object than Darcy, on particular occasions,…”
Mr Bingley · Chapter 11 (Netherfield)