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  • Pride and Prejudice c1-c15
    • Characters
      • Mr Bennet
        • "So odd mixture of quick parts that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character"
      • Mrs Bennet
        • "A woman of mean understanding, little information and uncertain temper"
          • "The business of her life was to get her daughters married"
            • "If I can see but one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield, and all the others equally well married, I shall have nothing to wish for"
              • To Jane: "you had better go on horseback, because it seems likely to rain; and then you must stay all night"
                • Mr Bennet: "If you daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness, if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr Bingley"
                  • Miss Bingley: "To walk 5 miles... quite alone! What could she mean by it? It seems to be to shew an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country town indifference to decorum"
                    • "Trusted that she might soon have 2 daughters married; and the man whom she could not bear to speak of the day before, was now high in her good graces"
      • Mr Bingley
        • "His sisters were fine women, with an air of decided fashion"
          • "Lively and unreserved, danced every dance"
            • Jane: "He is just what a young man ought to be"
              • "His anxiety for Jane was evident"
      • Mr Darcy
        • "Drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien"
          • "... and the report which was in general circulation within 5 minutes after his entrance, of his having 10,000 a year"
            • "His character was decided. He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world"
              • "His manners, though well bred, were not inviting"
                • Elizabeth's eyes were "brightened by the exercise"
                  • "I have been used to consider poetry the food of love"
                    • "Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will always be under good regulation"
                      • "My good opinion once lost is lost forever"
                        • "Elizabeth had been at Netherfield long enough. She attracted him more than he liked"
      • Elizabeth
        • "She had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous"
          • "I give you leave to like him"
            • "I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine"
              • "Elizabeth did not quit her [Jane's] room for a moment"
                • "their indifference to Jane when not immediately before them, restored Elizabeth to the enjoyment of all her original dislike"
                  • "Intricate characters are the most amusing. They have at least that advantage" (foreshadowing)
                    • "She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man; and yet that he should look at her because he disliked her, was still more strange"
                      • "She could only imagine that she drew his notice because there was something about her wrong, according to his ideas of right"
                        • [Darcy describes her defect is to] "wilfully misunderstand them"
      • Jane
        • Elizabeth: "All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes"
      • Mr Collins
        • "I can assure the young ladies that I come prepared to admire them"
          • "At present I will say no more, but perhaps when we are better acquainted - "
            • "I am happy on every occasion to offer those delicate little compliments which are always acceptable to ladies"
              • "I sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and arranging such little elegant compliments"
                • "Not a sensible man"
                  • "The respect that he felt for her [Lady Catherine's] high rank, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self importance and humility"
                    • "Having now a good house and very sufficient income, he intended to marry; and in seeking reconciliation with the Longbourn family he had a wife in view"
                      • "Mr Collins had only to change from Jane to Elizabeth - and it was soon done"
    • Love/marriage
      • "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"
        • Charlotte: "if a woman conceals her affection ... she may lose the opportunity of fixing him"
      • Mrs Bennet; "A single man of large fortune... what a fine thing for our girls!"
      • "To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love"
        • "A woman had better shew more affection than she feels"
      • Charlotte: "happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance"
        • "It is better to know as little as possible about the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life"
      • "It would surely be much more rational if conversation instead of dancing made the order of the day" (Caroline)
    • Class/finance
      • Bingley women
        • "Miss Bingley began abusing her as soon as she was out of the room"
          • Gossip: "why must SHE be scampering about the country, because her sister had a cold? Her hair so untidy, so blowsy!"
          • "I wish with all my heart that she were well settled. But with such a father and mother, and such low connections, I am afraid there is no chance of it"
          • "Miss Eliza Bennet," said Miss Bingley "despises cards. She is a great reader and has no pleasure in any thing else"
            • "Miss Bingley's attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr Darcy's progress through his book, as in reading her own"
      • "Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that if it were not for the inferiority of her connections, that he should be in some danger"
    • Women
      • "Mary, who having, in consequence of being the only plain one in the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments"
      • "It is amazing to me" said Mr Bingley, "how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished, as they all are"
        • "They all paint tables, cover skreens and net purses. I scarcely know anyone that cannot do all this, and I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time, without being informed that she was very accomplished"
          • Darcy - "I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen that are really accomplished... she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading"
          • Miss Bingley - "a woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking"
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    • "Both changed colour, one looked white, the other red"

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