Pride and Prejudice Quotations

Question 1

Mrs Bennet talking of Bingley to Mr Bennet about his new arrival

Answer 1

‘But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.’

Question 2

Elizabeth talking of Darcy to Jane about his pride

Answer 2

‘and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified me’

Question 3

Elizabeth at Netherfield for the first time to Mr Darcy about accomplished women

Answer 3

‘I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any’

Question 4

Mr Bennet teasing the girls about his visit to Bingley

Answer 4

‘The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished’

Question 5

Mrs Bennet’s forceful character on Mr Bennet

Answer 5

‘He left the room, fatigued with raptures of his wife’

Question 6

Mary attempts to show off her intelligence but fails this with her lack of social skills

Answer 6

‘Mary wished to say something sensible, but knew not how’

Question 7

Darcy after first seeing Elizabeth

Answer 7

‘She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me’

Question 8

what all men aspire to be

Answer 8

‘gentlemanlike’

Question 9

what all women aspire to be

Answer 9

‘accomplished’

Question 10

Mrs Bennet’s first opinion of Darcy

Answer 10

‘He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world’

Question 11

Elizabeth’s assumption of people’s characters and looks

Answer 11

‘His character is thereby complete’

Question 12

Elizabeth is surprised when Jane speaks ill of Mr Darcy’

Answer 12

‘I’ve never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life’

Question 13

Lizzy about Darcy and Pride

Answer 13

‘I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine’

Question 14

Lizzy about not dancing with Darcy, irony

Answer 14

‘I believe ma’am, I may safely promise you to never dance with him’

Question 15

Darcy starts to see the beauty in Lizzy

Answer 15

‘he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes’

Question 16

Mr Bennet and reputation of his daughters

Answer 16

‘must be two of the silliest girls in the country’

Question 17

reputation of the Bennet family

Answer 17

‘with such a mother and father’

Question 18

Bingley not prejudice towards Lizzy and Jane

Answer 18

‘If they had uncles to fill all Cheapside…it would not make them the jot less agreeable’

Question 19

Darcy prejudice towards Lizzy and Jane, irony, pray,attic, foreshadows, hints about Jane

Answer 19

‘But it must very materially lessen their chance of marrying men of any consideration in the world’

Question 20

Mr collins emphasis on his authority and power

Answer 20

‘as a clergyman’

Question 21

mr collins was…

Answer 21

‘not a sensible man’ and ‘self-conceit[ed]’

Question 22

wick ham says about darcy about pride

Answer 22

‘the world is blinded by his fortune and consequence’

Question 23

wickham lies about the way darcy has treated him

Answer 23

‘his behaviour to myself has been scandolous’

Question 24

wick ham says how georgiana acts toward him

Answer 24

‘extremely fond of me…but she is nothing to me now’

Question 25

how darcy has tried to prevent his love for Lizzy

Answer 25

'in vain i have struggled' and 'he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing'

Question 26

darcy expresses love to lizzy

Answer 26

'how ardently I admire and love you'

Question 27

indirect speech of actual proposal of darcy to lizzy

Answer 27

'would now be rewarded by her acceptance of his hand'

Question 28

darcy believes jane will accept as he is a man of great fortune

Answer 28

'his countenance expressed real security'

Question 29

lizzy irony about refusing to marry darcy

Answer 29

'i felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry'

Question 30

collins view on marriage

Answer 30

'business'

Question 31

lizzy's view on proposal of collins

Answer 31

'get it over as soon and as quietly as possible'

Question 32

lizzy feels awkward from proposal of collins

Answer 32

'divided between stress and diversion'

Question 33

lizzy feels awkward from proposal of darcy

Answer 33

'a silence of several minutes'

Question 34

collins repeating proposal to lizzy

Answer 34

'the refusal is repeated a second, or even third time'

Question 35

collins believes lizzy may never receive another proposal

Answer 35

'another offer of marriage may ever be made you'

Question 36

most famous p and p quotation

Answer 36

'it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife'

Question 37

darcy about the enclosed countryside

Answer 37

'in a country neighbourhood you move in a very confined and unvarying society'

Question 38

darcy starts to fall in love with lizzy

Answer 38

'Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her'

Question 39

collins very intrusive and obsessive

Answer 39

'the moment of her release from him was ecstasy'