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Pride and Prejudice / Pride and Influence
His pride, in that direction, may be of service, if not to himself, to many others, for it must deter him from such foul misconduct as I have suffered...
Pride and Prejudice / Generational Wisdom
I had hoped that our sentiments coincided in every particular, but I must so far differ from you as to think our two youngest daughters uncommonly foo...
Pride and Prejudice / Financial Ambivalence
His own father did not long survive mine; and within half a year from these events Mr. Wickham wrote to inform me that, having finally resolved agains...
Pride and Prejudice / Public Perception
Miss Lucas is married and settled: and one of my own daughters. I suppose you have heard of it; indeed, you must have seen it in the papers. It was in...
Pride and Prejudice / Family Honor Dilemma
He believed him to be imprudent and extravagant; and since this sad affair has taken place, it is said that he left Meryton greatly in debt: but I hop...
Pride and Prejudice / Marriage Rejection
“Very well--and this offer of marriage you have refused?” “I have, sir.” “Very well.
Pride and Prejudice / Paternal Authority
my father’s active superintendence; and when, immediately before my father’s death, Mr.
Pride and Prejudice / Societal Constraints
If you mention my name at the Bell, you will be attended to.” Lady Catherine had many other questions to ask respecting their journey; and as she did ...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Strife
Allow me to say, Lady Catherine, that the arguments with which you have supported this extraordinary application have been as frivolous as the applica...
Pride and Prejudice / Misunderstanding and Accountability
I knew enough of your disposition to be certain, that had you been absolutely, irrevocably decided against me, you would have acknowledged it to Lady ...
Pride and Prejudice / Urgency of Communication
“No; but it must be done soon.” Most earnestly did she then entreat him to lose no more time before he wrote. my dear father,” she cried, “come back a...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Tensions
and yet how many things have happened!” “A great many indeed,” said her companion, with a sigh. “We have dined nine times at Rosings, besides drinking...
Pride and Prejudice / Intellectual Sparring
He repeated the question, with some surprise at her silence. “Oh,” said she, “I heard you before; but I could not immediately determine what to say in...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics
Well, he certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.” “Dear Lizzy!” “Oh, you are a great dea...
Pride and Prejudice / Defiance of Duty
You are determined to ruin him in the opinion of all his friends, and make him the contempt of the world.” “Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude,” ...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Aspirations
Observing his second daughter employed in trimming a hat, he suddenly addressed her with,-- “I hope Mr. Bingley will like it, Lizzy.” “We are not in a...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics Unveiled
I would advise you, before you determine on it, to consult the wishes of the present party; I am much mistaken if there are not some among us to whom ...
Pride and Prejudice / Deception and Influence
“They have both,” said she, “been deceived, I dare say, in some way or other, of which we can form no idea. Interested people have perhaps misrepresen...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Ambition
Collins was gratified; and with a more smiling solemnity replied,-- “It gives me the greatest pleasure to hear that you have passed your time not disa...
Pride and Prejudice / Familial Conflict
Darcy should hear the first raptures of her joy, than the first vehemence of her disapprobation. Darcy rise also and follow him, and her agitation on ...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics
Darcy found, on further inquiry, that your father was still with him, but would quit town the next morning. He did not judge your father to be a perso...
Pride and Prejudice / Inheritance and Insensibility
“I cannot bear to think that they should have all this estate. If it was not for the entail, I should not mind it.” “What should not you mind?” “I sho...
Pride and Prejudice / Redefining Femininity
Elizabeth, with nothing offensive, nothing_ viraginous, _nothing of the “New Woman” about her, has by nature what the best modern (not “new”) women ha...
Pride and Prejudice / Power of Choice
He arranges the business just as he pleases.” “And if not able to please himself in the arrangement, he has at least great pleasure in the power of ch...
Pride and Prejudice / Pride and Duty
Family pride, and _filial_ pride, for he is very proud of what his father was, have done this. Not to appear to disgrace his family, to degenerate fro...
Pride and Prejudice / Class and Judgment
I will answer for it, he never cared three straws about her. Who _could_ about such a nasty little freckled thing?” Elizabeth was shocked to think tha...
Pride and Prejudice / Courage and Conflict
They walked towards the Lucases’, because Kitty wished to call upon Maria; and as Elizabeth saw no occasion for making it a general concern, when Kitt...
Pride and Prejudice / Character Perception
“I am trying to make it out.” “And what is your success?” She shook her head. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.” “I can ...
Pride and Prejudice / Familial Duty
Bennet thought it possible they might have gone to one of them, on their first coming to London, before they procured lodgings. Gardiner himself did n...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics
Bennet was doubly engaged, on one hand collecting an account of the present fashions from Jane, who sat some way below her, and on the other, retailin...
Pride and Prejudice / Longing and Separation
They were confined for the evening at different tables; and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the ro...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics
Collins’s triumph, in consequence of this invitation, was complete. The power of displaying the grandeur of his patroness to his wondering visitors, a...
Pride and Prejudice / Civility and Class
“I have no reason, I assure you,” said he, “to be dissatisfied with my reception. He answered me with the utmost civility, and even paid me the compli...
Pride and Prejudice / Survival Anxiety
Let us flatter ourselves that _I_ may be the survivor.” This was not very consoling to Mrs. Bennet; and, therefore, instead of making any answer, she ...
Pride and Prejudice / Colonels Arrival
Darcy had brought with him a Colonel Fitzwilliam, the younger son of his uncle, Lord ----; and, to the great surprise of all the party, when Mr.
Pride and Prejudice / Societal Judgment
She was shown into the breakfast parlour, where all but Jane were assembled, and where her appearance created a great deal of surprise. That she shoul...
Pride and Prejudice / Reputation and Silence
Darcy and his relation Colonel Fitzwilliam, I was ignorant of the truth myself. And when I returned home the ----shire was to leave Meryton in a week ...
Pride and Prejudice / Marriage and Class
Collins arrived on Tuesday, addressed to their father, and written with all the solemnity of gratitude which a twelve-month’s abode in the family migh...
Pride and Prejudice / Interpersonal Tensions
Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people’s feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.” “And do you impute it to either of those...
Pride and Prejudice / Wealth and Matrimony
Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Hierarchies
Collins; and as they walked down the garden, he was commissioning her with his best respects to all her family, not forgetting his thanks for the kind...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Tension
Collins’s offer was now nearly at an end, and Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncomfortable feelings necessarily attending it, and occasionally ...
Pride and Prejudice / Class and Perception
They have at least that advantage.” “The country,” said Darcy, “can in general supply but few subjects for such a study. In a country neighbourhood yo...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Expectations
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the...
Pride and Prejudice / Unexpressed Longing
Four sides of paper were insufficient to contain all her delight, and all her earnest desire of being loved by her sister. Collins, or any congratulat...
Pride and Prejudice / Familial Tensions
I have not been in the habit of brooking disappointment.” “_That_ will make your Ladyship’s situation at present more pitiable; but it will have no ef...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics Revealed
Darcy speaking to her.” “Ay, because she asked him at last how he liked Netherfield, and he could not help answering her; but she said he seemed very ...
Pride and Prejudice / Emotional Transformation
As for Elizabeth, her thoughts were at Pemberley this evening more than the last; and the evening, though as it passed it seemed long, was not long en...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Class Conflict
It was the favourite wish of _his_ mother, as well as of hers. While in their cradles we planned the union; and now, at the moment when the wishes of ...
Pride and Prejudice / Deceptive Charisma
And we all know that Wickham has every charm of person and address that can captivate a woman.” “But you see that Jane,” said her aunt, “does not thin...
Pride and Prejudice / Rejection of Opulence
She must own that she was tired of great houses: after going over so many, she really had no pleasure in fine carpets or satin curtains. “If it were m...
Pride and Prejudice / Familial Influence
I had not believed it possible.” “I suspected as much,” replied Elizabeth. “But how did he account for it?” “It must have been his sisters’ doing.
Pride and Prejudice / Social Dilemmas
The least agreeable circumstance in the business was the surprise it must occasion to Elizabeth Bennet, whose friendship she valued beyond that of any...
Pride and Prejudice / Family Duties
Her answer, therefore, was not propitious, at least not to Elizabeth’s wishes, for she was impatient to get home. Bennet sent them word that they coul...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Games
“You cannot be more than twenty, I am sure,--therefore you need not conceal your age.” “I am not one-and-twenty.” When the gentlemen had joined them, ...
Pride and Prejudice / Wickhams Motivations
Wickham’s chief object was unquestionably my sister’s fortune, which is thirty thousand pounds; but I cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging...
Pride and Prejudice / Perception versus Reality
for I dare not hope,” he continued, in a lower and more serious tone, “that he is improved in essentials.” “Oh, no!” said Elizabeth. “In essentials, I...
Pride and Prejudice / Idle Pursuits
She has been allowed to dispose of her time in the most idle and frivolous manner, and to adopt any opinions that came in her way. Since the ----shire...
Pride and Prejudice / Letter Arrival
back with them” [_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]] Soon after their return, a letter was delivered to Miss Bennet; it came from Netherfield, and was...
Pride and Prejudice / Character Reflection
Bennet was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own imprudence had brought on in any of those pleasures which too oft...
Pride and Prejudice / Emotional Conflict
In spite of her deeply-rooted dislike, she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man’s affection, and though her intentions did not vary...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics Revealed
Mary’s powers were by no means fitted for such a display; her voice was weak, and her manner affected. She looked at Jane to see how she bore it; but ...
Pride and Prejudice / Marriage Aspirations
His being such a charming young man, and so rich, and living but three miles from them, were the first points of self-gratulation; and then it was suc...
Pride and Prejudice / Marriage and Agency
I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of...
Pride and Prejudice / Inheritance Dynamics
And so, I suppose, they often talk of having Longbourn when your father is dead. They look upon it quite as their own, I dare say, whenever that happe...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Tension
Elizabeth had not before believed him quite equal to such assurance; but she sat down, resolving within herself to draw no limits in future to the imp...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics
“Oh, Mary,” said she, “I wish you had gone with us, for we had such fun! as we went along Kitty and me drew up all the blinds, and pretended there was...
Pride and Prejudice / Character Flaws
It was not all settled before Monday: as soon as it was, the express was sent off to Longbourn. I fancy, Lizzy, that obstinacy is the real defect of h...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics
I have scarcely any hesitation in saying that she will include you and my sister Maria in every invitation with which she honours us during your stay ...
Pride and Prejudice / Sisterly Confessions
I am afraid you will be angry.” “My dearest sister, now be, _be_ serious. Let me know everything that I am to know without delay. Will you tell me how...
Pride and Prejudice / Contrasting Friendships
the principal rooms, satisfied with what the owner said in its praise, and took it immediately. Between him and Darcy there was a very steady friendsh...
Pride and Prejudice / Gratitude and Justice
I thank you again and again, for not going to the Lakes. Perhaps other people have said so before, but no one with such justice.