English Literature - Pride and Prejudice Quotations

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‘All the others
equally married, I shall have nothing to wish for’ - Mrs Bennet
1 of 35
‘He is just
what a young man ought to be’- Jane about Mr Bingley
2 of 35
‘He was the proudest,
most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again’- Narrator about Mr Darcy
3 of 35
‘Were it not for the
inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger’- Mr Darcy about Elizabeth
4 of 35
'happiness in
marriage is entirely a matter of chance' - Charlotte
5 of 35
‘you are not
serious in your rejection of me’ – Mr Collins to Elizabeth
6 of 35
‘I ask only
for a comfortable home’ – Charlotte about marrying Mr Collins
7 of 35
‘Mr Collins is a
conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man’ – Elizabeth
8 of 35
‘Lady Catherine seemed
quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer’ – Lady Catherine talking to Elizabeth
9 of 35
‘There is a stubbornness
about me that never can bear be frightened at the will of others’- Elizabeth
10 of 35
'You chose to tell me
that you liked me against you will, against your reason, and even against your character?'- Elizabeth to Mr Darcy's proposal
11 of 35
'Could you expect
me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?'- Mr Darcy to Elizabeth
12 of 35
‘They were ignorant
idle and vain’- about Kitty and Lydia
13 of 35
‘she had been blind
partial, prejudiced, absurd’- Elizabeth reflecting on her poor judgement of Darcy
14 of 35
‘How I should
like to be married before any of you’ –Lydia
15 of 35
'Lydia, assisted
by Kitty’s hints and additions’ – Kitty and Lydia
16 of 35
'One has got all the goodness
and the other all the appearance of it’- Elizabeth about Mr Wickham and Mr Darcy
17 of 35
'vain, ignorant
idle and absolutely uncontrolled’- Lydia
18 of 35
'He is the best landlord
and the best master', said she, 'that ever lived''- Mr Darcy's housekeeper
19 of 35
It is many months since
I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance’ – Mr Darcy about Elizabeth
20 of 35
She has no money
, no connexions, nothing that can tempt him to- she is lost forever’ –Elizabeth about Lydia
21 of 35
That he has neither
integrity nor honour; that he is as false and deceitful as he is insinuating’ – about Mr Wickham
22 of 35
‘All Meryton seemed striving
to blacken the man who, but three months before, had been almost an angel of light’- Meryton and Mr Wickham
23 of 35
‘The death
of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison to this’ – Mr Collins about Lydia and Wickham
24 of 35
‘This false step
in one daughter will be injurious to the fortunes of all the others’ – Mr Collins
25 of 35
‘ A couple who were
only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue’ – Mr Wickham and Lydia
26 of 35
'with the liveliest
emotion, that she was the happiest creature in the world'- Jane after Bingley's proposal
27 of 35
'I am only resolved to act
in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me’ –Elizabeth to Lady Catherine
28 of 35
‘Are the shades
of Pemberley to be thus polluted?' - Lady Catherine to Elizabeth's marriage to Mr. Darcy
29 of 35
‘You are determined
to ruin him’ – Lady Catherine about Elizabeth marrying Mr Darcy
30 of 35
‘We will not
not quarrel for the greater share of the blame’ – Elizabeth to Mr Darcy
31 of 35
'What do I not owe
you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled'- Darcy to Elizabeth
32 of 35
‘Are you out of your
senses to be accepting this man?’ – Mr Bennet to Elizabeth
33 of 35
‘My child, let me
not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life.’- Mr Bennet to Elizabeth
34 of 35
'How rich
and great you will be!’- Mrs Bennet to Elizabeth of her marriage
35 of 35

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Card 2

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what a young man ought to be’- Jane about Mr Bingley

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‘He is just

Card 3

Front

most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again’- Narrator about Mr Darcy

Back

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Card 4

Front

inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger’- Mr Darcy about Elizabeth

Back

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Card 5

Front

marriage is entirely a matter of chance' - Charlotte

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