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It is a truth..

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universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife

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a single man

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of a large fortune, four or five thousand a year. what a fine thing for our girls

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Mr Bennet - favoritism

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But you are always giving her the preference

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Mrs Bennets..

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Poor nerves

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Mrs Bennet was so odd a mixture of..

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quick parts, sarcastic humor, reserve and caprice

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a woman of

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mean understanding, little information and uncertain temper. also ‘nervous’

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The business of her life …

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was to get her daughters married, its solace was visiting and news.

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Mr Bingley was

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good looking and gentleman like; he had a pleasent countenance, and easy, unaffected manners. […] perfect good breeding

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9
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To be found dancing was a …

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certain step towards falling in love

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(Mr Darcy) a tall

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person, handsome features, noble mein and […] ten thousand a year

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he was the proudest…

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most disagreeable man in the world […] I quite detest the man

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there is not another woman

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in the room whom it would not be a punishment to me to stand up with

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13
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she is tolerable

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but not handsome enough to tempt me

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14
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Mr bingley had

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danced with her twice

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Catherine and Lydia had been fortunate enough

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never to be without partners

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16
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all the world is

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good and agreeable in your eyes

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(the bingley sisters are)

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proud and concieted […] entitled to think well of themselves and meanly of others

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18
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Mr Hurst, a man of more

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fashion than fortune

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Darcy was clever. He was

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at the same time haughty, reserved and fastidious and his manners were not inviting

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20
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I could easily forgive

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his pride had he not mortified mine

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21
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Happiness in

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marriage is entirely a matter of chance

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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects

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of the person with whom you are to pass your life

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23
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made Elizabeth tremble lest

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her mother should be exposing herself again

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24
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Despise me

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if you dare

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Darcy had never been
so bewitched by a woman as by her
26
were it not for the
inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger
27
I cannot forget the follies and vices of others
so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself
28
My temper would perhaps be called resentful
My good opinion, once lost is lost forever
29
your defect is to
hate everybody
30
and yours is willfully to
misunderstand them
31
(Mr collins) I feel it is my duty to
promote and establish the blessings of peace in families
32
there is a mixture of
servility and self importance in his letter
33
Mr Collins was a
tall, heavy looking young man of five-and-twenty ('humble abode')
34
a mixture of pride,
and obsequiousness, self importance and humility
35
Mr whickham had a happy readiness of
conversation
36
Mr wickham was the happy man
towards whom almost every female eye was turned
37
Lydia was a most
determined talker
38
Mr Darcy deserves to be
publicly disgraced
39
A young man like you whose very
countenance may vouch for your being amiable
40
(lady catherine) her manners were
dictorial and insolent
41
Elizabeth allowed that he had
given a very rational account
42
Elizabeth went away
with her head full of him
43
there was truth
in his looks
44
they were dances
of mortification, shame and misery
45
I consider the clerical office as equal in point of dignity
with the highest rank in the kingdom - provided that a proper humility of behavior is at the same time maintained
46
rich and living
but three miles from them
47
such a promising thing for her young
daughters, janes marrying so well will surley throw them in the way of other rich men
48
before i am
run away with by my feelings
49
most animated language of the
violence of my affections
50
you could not make me happy
and i am convinced that i am the last woman in the world who could make you so
51
undutiful
children
52
I am not romantic you know I never was I only ask for a comfortable home
and considering Mr collins character, connection and situation in life. I am convinced that my chance of happiness with him is as most people can boast on entering the marriage state
53
Mr Darcy was
condemned as the worst of men
54
Mr Gardiner was a sensible
gentlemanlike man greatly superior to his sister as well by nature as education
55
Mrs Gardener was an amiable,
intelligent, elegant woman and a great favourite with all her Longbourn nieces
56
cultivation of which
he attended himself
57
Lady catherine was a
tall, large woman with strongly-marked features which might once have been handsome
58
I am ill-qualified to
recommend myself to strangers
59
inconveniences of a most
imprudent marriage, ... some very strong objections against the lady
60
could you expect me to
rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?- to congradulate myself on the hope of relations whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?
61
had you behaved
in a more gentlemanlike manner
62
arrogance, your conceit
and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others
63
I felt that you were the last
man in the world whom I could be prevailed upon to marry
64
his pride..
his abominable pride
65
the want of connections could not
be so great an evil to my friend as to me
66
she did not seem
to ask for compassion (charlotte )
67
so unsuitable a
marriage
68
evils arising from so ill-judged
a direction of talents
69
Pemberley =
'large handsome' 'natural importance' 'without any artificial appearance' 'at the moment she felt that to be mistress of Pemberley might be something' 'neither gaudy nor uselessly fine with less of splendour and more elegance than the furniture at rosings'
70
just as affable
to the poor
71
deeper sentiment of gratitude
than it had ever raised before she remembered its warmth and softened its impropriety of expression
72
such civility to inquire
after her family
73
her astonishment
however was extreme
74
such a change in a man
of so much pride, existing not only astonishment but gratitude - for to love, ardent love, it must be attributed
75
she respected she esteemed she was grateful to him,
she felt a real interest in his welfare
76
i have considered
her the handsomest women of my acquaintance
77
and never had she so honestly
felt that she could have loved him as now when all love must be in vain
78
(Mr B) i am not afraid of being overpowered by
the impression. it will pass away soon enough
79
that they should marry, small as is their
chance of happiness and wrethed as is his character we are forced to rejoice
80
lydia was still lydia,
untamed, unabashed, wild noisy and fearless
81
Whickhams affection for lydia was just
what elizabeth had expected to find it, not equal to lydias for him
82
remedy an
evil
83
he did not judge
your father to be a person whom he could so properly consult as your uncle
84
i have no doubt
of your doing very well together
85
the handsomest young
man that ever was seen
86
the upstart pretension of a
young woman without family, connections or fortune
87
i should not consider myself as quitting
that sphere, he is a gentle man and I am a gentle mans daughter, so far we are equal
88
are the shades of pemberly to
be thus polluted
89
i have been a selfish being
all my life in practice though not in principle
90
but i believe i must date it from
my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley
91
you could be neither happy nor respectable
unless you truly esteemed your husband; unless you looked up to him as a superior

English lit P&P quotes (1 decks)

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