For any student who is studying Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice', this list of quotations (quotes), sorted by character, is extremely useful.
Please note: The quotations are sorted by which character they describe rather than which character said them.
Mrs Bennet:
She is: middle class, crass, shallow, a gossip.
“You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”
“When a woman has five grown up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.”
“Mean understanding…little information…(her) solace was visiting and news,”
Mr Lucas (Sir William):
“Formerly in trade…Risen to the honour of knighthood.”
“I am fond of superior society,”
“Dancing…I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society.”
Mr Bingley:
“Pleasant countenance…gentlemanlike…unaffected manner.”
Mary Bennet:
“Vanity and pride are different things…pride relates to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
“Vanity had given her application…likewise a pedantic air and conceited manner,”
Charlotte Lucas:
“A woman had better show more affection that she feels.”
“A most humiliating picture,”
“disgracing herself…sunk in her esteem.”
Mr Collins:
“He must be an oddity.”
Mr Bennet: “A mixture of servility, pride, obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.”
“In the first place, he must make such an agreement for tithes as may be beneficial to himself and not offensive to his patron.”
Wickham:
“Best part of beauty…a good figure…happy readiness of conversation.”
“(He was) a happy man, towards whom the eyes of every female were turned.”
“But he paid her not the smallest attention till her grandfather’s death made her mistress of this fortune.”
Elizabeth:
“Elizabeth was restored to the enjoyment of her original dislike.”
Mr Darcy: “Your defect is wilfully to misunderstand them.”
“Whose very countenance may vouch for you being amiable.”
“Elizabeth went away with her head full of him.”
“There was truth in his looks.”
“To find a man agreeable who one is determined to hate.”
“Oh that abominable Mr Darcy,”
To Mr Darcy: “I have every reason to think ill of you.” “Your arrogance…your selfish disdain...your conceit.”
“A strong prejudice against everything he might say.”
“Ashamed…she had been blind, partial, prejudiced and absurd.”
“But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
“Unjustly, she had condemned and upbraided him.”
“Compassion…gratitude…respect”
“Unjustly, she had condemned and upbraided him.”
“Mr Darcy improves on acquaintance.”
“Ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him…goodwill.”
“Gradually, all her forms of prejudice had been removed.”
Mr Darcy:
“Tall, handsome features…noble mien… (earns) ten thousand a year.”
“He was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased.”
“He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.”
“There is not another woman in the room who it would not be a punishment for me to stand up with.”
Mrs Bennet: “Most disagreeable, horrid man.”
“So high and so conceited”
“I quite detest the man.”
“It must materially lessen their chance of marrying men of any consideration in the world.”
“Haughty, reserved and fastidious…his manners, though well bred, were not inviting.”
Jane: “He never speaks much.”
“One cannot wonder that so fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think so highly of himself.”
“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.”
“I have faults enough…I cannot forget the follies and vices of others..There is, I believe, in every disposition…a natural defect.”
“Mr Darcy looked a little ashamed of his aunt’s ill-breeding and made no answer.”
“I certainly have not the talent…of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.”
Servant: “Sweetest tempered…affable to the poor…best master that ever lived.”
“By you, I was properly humbled.”
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