Pride and Prejudice — Quotes

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PROGRESS

Your pride... his pride... for you are really proud of your defects in understan…

LEXICAL REPETITION / SEMANTIC REFRAMINGSUBVERSION OF PATERNAL AUTHORITY

Elizabeth · Volume 3, Chapter 15

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STAGNATE

A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing f…

ECONOMIC QUANTIFICATIONAUSTEN'S IRONIC FRAMING

Mrs Bennet · Chapter 1

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STAGNATE

If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield, and all the…

EUPHEMISM & SEMANTIC EVASIONCONDITIONAL MOOD / MATERNAL WISH

Mrs Bennet · Chapter 3

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STAGNATE

You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves

HYPERBOLE & SOMATISATIONTHE BENNET MARRIAGE AS FOIL

Mrs Bennet · Chapter 1

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STAGNATE

I am sure I cried for two days together when Colonel Miller's regiment went away…

HYPERBOLE & ARRESTED DEVELOPMENTAUSTEN'S INDIRECT FORESHADOWING

Mrs Bennet · Chapter 7

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STAGNATE

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in …

RHETORICAL QUESTION AS PHILOSOPHYIRONY AS EVASION

Mr Bennet · Chapter 57

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PROGRESS

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a str…

ANTITHETICAL PARALLELISMCOMIC INTERVENTION & POWER

Mr Bennet · Chapter 20

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REGRESS

I am heartily ashamed of myself, Lizzy. But don't despair — it will pass, and no…

SELF-AWARE BATHOSTRAGIC IRONY BENEATH COMEDY

Mr Bennet · Chapter 48 (After Lydia's Elopement)

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STAGNATE

Your mother will never be easy till she has exposed herself in every town in Eng…

HYPERBOLE & CONTEMPTMARITAL DYSFUNCTION AS SOCIAL COMMENTARY

Mr Bennet · Chapter 41

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STAGNATE

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in y…

OXYMORONIC MORAL LOGICEPISTOLARY SATIRE

Mr Collins · Chapter 48 (Letter about Lydia)

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STAGNATE

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

METAPHOR OF CONTAMINATIONRHETORICAL QUESTION AS WEAPON

Lady Catherine · Chapter 56

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STAGNATE

She is a most charming young lady indeed. Lady Catherine herself says that in po…

UNRELIABLE TESTIMONYSATIRICAL VENTRILOQUISM

Lady Catherine (via Mr Collins) · Chapter 14

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STAGNATE

Till I can forget his father, I can never defy or expose him

PERFORMATIVE CONTRADICTIONAUSTEN'S IRONIC FORESHADOWING

Wickham · Chapter 16