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Pride and Prejudice Quotations Flashcards

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Mrs Bennet talking of Bingley to Mr Bennet about his new arrival

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‘But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.’

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Elizabeth talking of Darcy to Jane about his pride

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‘and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified me’

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Elizabeth at Netherfield for the first time to Mr Darcy about accomplished women

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‘I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any’

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Mr Bennet teasing the girls about his visit to Bingley

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‘The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished’

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Mrs Bennet’s forceful character on Mr Bennet

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‘He left the room, fatigued with raptures of his wife’

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Mary attempts to show off her intelligence but fails this with her lack of social skills

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‘Mary wished to say something sensible, but knew not how’

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Darcy after first seeing Elizabeth

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‘She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me’

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what all men aspire to be

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‘gentlemanlike’

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what all women aspire to be

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‘accomplished’

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Mrs Bennet’s first opinion of Darcy

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‘He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world’

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Elizabeth’s assumption of people’s characters and looks

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‘His character is thereby complete’

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Elizabeth is surprised when Jane speaks ill of Mr Darcy’

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‘I’ve never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life’

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Lizzy about Darcy and Pride

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‘I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine’

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Lizzy about not dancing with Darcy, irony

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‘I believe ma’am, I may safely promise you to never dance with him’

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Darcy starts to see the beauty in Lizzy

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‘he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes’

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Mr Bennet and reputation of his daughters

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‘must be two of the silliest girls in the country’

17
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reputation of the Bennet family

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‘with such a mother and father’

18
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Bingley not prejudice towards Lizzy and Jane

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‘If they had uncles to fill all Cheapside…it would not make them the jot less agreeable’

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Darcy prejudice towards Lizzy and Jane, irony, pray,attic, foreshadows, hints about Jane

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‘But it must very materially lessen their chance of marrying men of any consideration in the world’

20
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Mr collins emphasis on his authority and power

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‘as a clergyman’

21
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mr collins was…

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‘not a sensible man’ and ‘self-conceit[ed]’

22
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wick ham says about darcy about pride

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‘the world is blinded by his fortune and consequence’

23
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wickham lies about the way darcy has treated him

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‘his behaviour to myself has been scandolous’

24
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wick ham says how georgiana acts toward him

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‘extremely fond of me…but she is nothing to me now’

25
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how darcy has tried to prevent his love for Lizzy

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‘in vain i have struggled’ and ‘he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing’

26
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darcy expresses love to lizzy

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‘how ardently I admire and love you’

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indirect speech of actual proposal of darcy to lizzy

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‘would now be rewarded by her acceptance of his hand’

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darcy believes jane will accept as he is a man of great fortune

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‘his countenance expressed real security’

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lizzy irony about refusing to marry darcy

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‘i felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry’

30
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collins view on marriage

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‘business’

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lizzy’s view on proposal of collins

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‘get it over as soon and as quietly as possible’

32
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lizzy feels awkward from proposal of collins

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‘divided between stress and diversion’

33
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lizzy feels awkward from proposal of darcy

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‘a silence of several minutes’

34
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collins repeating proposal to lizzy

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‘the refusal is repeated a second, or even third time’

35
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collins believes lizzy may never receive another proposal

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‘another offer of marriage may ever be made you’

36
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most famous p and p quotation

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‘it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife’

37
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darcy about the enclosed countryside

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‘in a country neighbourhood you move in a very confined and unvarying society’

38
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darcy starts to fall in love with lizzy

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‘Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her’

39
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collins very intrusive and obsessive

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‘the moment of her release from him was ecstasy’

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