Prejudice

Prejudice

1. Elizabeth

   • He was the cause, his pride and caprice were the cause of all that Jane had suffered, and still continued to suffer.
   • I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world who I could ever be prevailed on to marry.
   • He has been so unlucky as to lose your friendship, and in a manner which he is likely to suffer from all his life.
   • And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.
   • You wish to think all the world respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of anybody.
   • You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who would make you so.
   • You could not have made me the offer of your had in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it
   • I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
   • You have reduced him to his present state of poverty. You have deprived the best years of his life. You have done all this!
   • That is quite shocking! He deserves to be publicly disgraced!
   • I had not though Mr Darcy so bad as this, though I have never liked him, I had not thought so very ill of him.
   • I had supposed him to be despising his fellow-creatures in general, but did not suspect him of descending to such malicious revenge, such injustice, such inhumanity as this!
   • The world is blinded by his fortune and consequence, or frightened by his high and imposing manners, and sees him only as he chuses to be seen.
   • I have every reason in the world to think ill of you
   • And never allow yourself to be blinded by prejudice?
   • His pride never deserts him; but with the rich, he is liberal-minded, just, sincere, rational, honourable and perhaps agreeable- allowing something for fortune and figure.

2. Darcy

   • His character was decided. He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.
   • She attracted him more than he liked
   • He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger.
   • Mr Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise.
   • She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me.

3. Mrs Bennet

   • So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him! He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very great! Not handsome enough to dance with!
   • Good gracious! Lord bless me! Mr Darcy! Who would have thought it! I am so pleased! Such a charming man! –so handsome and so tall! Pray apologise for my having disliked him so much before. I hope he will overlook it.
   • Among the most violent against him was Mrs Bennet, whose dislike of this general behaviour, was sharpened into particular resentment, by his having slighted one of her daughters.
   • But I can assure you, that Lizzie does not lose much by not suiting his fancy; for he is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing. He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very great! I would not dance with him, if I were you.
   • I beg you would not put it into Lizzy’s head to be vexed by his ill-treatment; for he is such a disagreeable man that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

4. Lady Catherine

   • No governess! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without a governess! - I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your education.
   • All! - What? All five out at once! Very odd!
   • But your arts and allurements in a moment of infatuation have made him forget what he owes to himself and to all his family. You may have drawn him in.
   • Miss Bennet, do you know who I am?
   • Miss Bennet, you ought to know that I am not to be trifled with.
   • Her air was not conciliating, nor was her manner of receiving them, such as to make her visitors forget their inferior rank.
   • Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence.

5. Miss Bingley

   • Miss Bingley began abusing her as soon as she was out of the room. Her manners were pronounced to be very bad indeed, a mixture of pride and impertinence; she had no conversation, no stile, no taste, no beauty.
   • Why must she be scampering about the country, because her sister had a cold? Her hair so untidy, so blowsy!
   • Miss Bingley was venting her feelings in criticisms on Elizabeth’s person, behaviour and dress.
   • I have an excessive regard for Jane Bennet, she is really a very sweet girl, and I wish with all my heart she were well settled. But with such a father and mother, and such low connections, I am afraid there is no chance of it.