PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
by Jane Austin
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 1, pg 1
When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 1, pg 2
... but his friend, Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine tall person, handsome features, and the report which was in general circulation within five minutes, of his having and income of ten thousand pounds a year.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 2, pg 4
"Come, Darcy," said he, "I hate to see you standing about by yourself. You had much better dance."
"I certainly shall not. You know how I detest it, unless I am particularly acquainted with my partner. You sisters are engaged, and there is not another woman in the room whom it would not be a punishment to me to stand up with."
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 2, pg 5
Oh, you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people. You never see a fault in anybody.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 2, pg 7
Bingley was sure of being liked wherever he appeared, Darcy was continually giving offense.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 2, pg 9
"That is very true," replied Elizabeth, "and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 3, pg 10
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him. Very few have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 3, pg 11
"Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when the note had been read, "if you daughter should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley."
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 4, pg 24
"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best eduction can overcome."
"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours, "he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them."
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 4, pg 29
After playing some Italian songs, Miss Bingley played a lively Scotch air; and Mr. Darcy, drawing near Elizabeth, said, "Do you not feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?"
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 4, pg 32
After a pause of some minutes, she addressed him a second time with - "It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples."
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 7, pg 49
Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of retaining them is less certain.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 7, pg 50
"What think you of books?" said he smiling.
"Books - oh, no! I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings."
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 7, pg 51
I understand that Mr. Collins has made you an offer of marriage. Is it true?" Elizabeth replied that it was. "Very well - and this offer of marriage you have refused?"
"I have, sir."
"Very well. We now come to the point. Your mother insists upon your accepting it. Is it not so, Mrs. Bennet?"
"Yes, or I will never see her again."
"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins and I will never see you again if you do."
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 8, pg 63
"Aye, there she comes," said Mrs. Bennet,
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 8, pg 64
I am not romantic, you know; I ask only a comfortable home, and considering Mr. Collin's situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of happiness with him is fair."
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 9, pg 72
"Indeed, Mr. Bennet," said she, "it is very hard to think that Charlotte Lucas should ever be mistress of this house, that I should be forced to make way for her, and live to see her take my place in it!"
"My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts. Let us hope for better things. Let us flatter ourselves that I may be the survivor."
That was not very consoling to Mrs. Bennet.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 9, pg 75
"They may wish him to choose Miss Darcy," replied Jane; "but they have known her longer than they have me; no wonder if they love her better. But whatever may be their own wishes, it is very unlikely they should have opposed their brother's. If they believed him attached to me, they would not try to part us; if he were so, they could not succeed. By supposing such an affection, you make me most unhappy. Do not distress me by the idea."
Elizabeth could not oppose such a wish, and from this time Mr. Bingley's name was scarcely ever mentioned between them.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 10, pg 77
Mr. Gardner was a sensible, gentleman-like man, greatly superior to his sister, as well as by nature as education. The Netherfield ladies would have had difficulty in believing that a man who lived by trade, and within view of his own warehouses, could have been so well-bread and agreeable. Mrs. Gardiner who was several years younger than Mrs. Bennet, was an amiable, intelligent woman and a great favorite with all her Longbourn nieces.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 10, pg. 78
But since we see every day that where there is affection, young people are seldom withheld by want of fortune from entering into engagements with each other, how can I promise to be wiser than my fellow creatures if I ma tempted. All that I can promise you, therefore, is not to be in a hurry. I will not be in a hurry to believe myself his first object. When I am with him, I will not be wishing.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 10, pg. 81
Her fellow travelers the next day were not of a kind to make her think him less agreeable. Sir William Lucas, and his daughter Maria, a good-humored girl,but as empty-headed as himself, had nothing to say that was in any way worth hearing.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 11, pg. 85
What delight! What felicity! Adieu to disappointment. What are men to rocks and mountains! Oh what hours of transport we shall spend!
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 11, pg. 86
When Mr. Collins said anything of which his wife might be reasonably ashamed, which was not seldom, she involuntarily turned her eye on Charlotte. Once or twice she could discern a faint blush; but in general Charlotte wisely did not hear.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 11, pg. 87
"Compared with some families I believe we were; but such of us as wished to learn never wanted the means. We were always encouraged to read, and had all the masters that were necessary. Those who chose to be idle, certainly might."
"Aye , no doubt; but that is what a governess will prevent,..."
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 12, pg. 93
... and he was not more eloquent on the subject of tenderness than of pride. His sense of her inferiority - of the family obstacles with judgment had always opposed to inclination - were dwelt on with a warmth which seemed very unlikely to recommend his suit.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 14, pg. 108
In spite of her deeply rooted dislike, she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man's affection, and she was at first sorry for the pain he was to receive; till rouse to resentment by his subsequent language, she lost all compassion in anger.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 14, pg. 108
They were natural and just. Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections - to congratulate myself on the hope of relations whose condition in life is so beneath my own?
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 14, pg. 111
There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 16, pg. 126
Lydia will never be easy till she has exposed herself herself in some pubic place or other, and we can never expect her to d it with so little expense or inconvenience to her family as under the present circumstances. We shall have no peace at Longbourn if she does not go to Brighton. Let her go, then. Colonel Forster is a sensible man, and will keep her out of mischief; and she is luckily too poor to be an object o of prey to anybody. At Brighton she will be of less importance that she has been here. The officers will find women better worth their notice. Let us hope, therefore, that her being there may teach her her own insignificance.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 16, pg. 128
She was amazed at the alteration of his manner since they last parted; every sentence that he uttered increased her embarrassment; and the few minutes in which they continued together were some of the most uncomfortable of her life.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 17, pg. 137
And his behavior, so strikingly altered -- what could it mean? That he should even speak to her was amazing! But to speak with such civility, to inquire after her family! Never in her life had she known him to speak with such gentleness. She knew not how to account for it.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 17, pg. 137
"Lizzy, how came you to tell me that he was so disagreeable?"
Elizabeth excused herself as well as she could; said that she had liked him better when they met in Kent, and that she had never seen him so pleasant as this morning.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 17, pg. 141
Had I known what I ought, what I dared to do! But I knew hot. Wretched, wretched mistake!
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 19, pg. 151
Lydia was exceedingly fond of him He was her dear Wickham on every occasion; he did everything best in the world; and she was sure he would kill more birds on the first of September than anybody else in the country.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 22, pg. 171
And there was my aunt, all the time I was dressing, preaching away just as if she was reading a sermon. However, I did not hear one word in ten, for I was thinking, you may suppose, of my dear Wickham.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 22, pg. 172
“Oh, my dear Lydia!” she cried, “write to me often, my dear.”
“As often as I can. But you know married women have never much time for writing. My sisters may write to me. They will have nothing else to do.”
Mr. Wickhams’s adieus were much more affectionate than his wife’s. He smiled, looked handsome, and said many pretty things.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 23, pg. 177
“When you have killed all your own birds, Mr. Bingley,” said her mother, “I beg you will come here, and shoot as many as you please on Mr. Bennet’s manor.”
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 23, pg. 180
You tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy that every servant will cheat you; and so generous that you will always exceed your income.”
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 23, pg. 196
“Oh, Lizzy, if I could but see you as happy! If there were but such another man for you!”
“If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness No, no let me shift for myself; and perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may in time meet with another Mr. Collins.”
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 23, pg. 197
You ought certainly to forgive them, as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 25, pg. 197
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 25, pg. 197
I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to anyone less worthy.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 26, pg. 207
If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 26, pg. 207
Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her drew him oftener from home than anything else could do. He delighted in going to Pemberley, especially when he was least expected.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 27, pg. 213
In society so superior to what she had generally know, her improvement was great, and, removed from the influence of Lydia's example, she became less irritable,less ignorant, and less insipid.
- Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice, chapter 27, pg. 213
VOCABULARY
Alacrity, pg. 184
cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness
approbation, pg. 187
approval; commendation. 2. official approval or sanction. An expression of warm approval; praise
arrear, pg, 314
a legal term for the part of a debt that is overdue after missing one or more required payments; unpaid, overdue debt or an unfulfilled obligation. 2. The state of being behind in fulfilling obligations; the state of being behind in the discharge of obligation, duty, or promise
Connubial, pg. 166
relating to marriage or the relationship of husband and wife; conjugal
diffidence, pg. 203
lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy
insipid, pg. 313
lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge : dull, flat Unappetizingly flavorless
obsequious, pg. 211
marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness; Full of or exhibiting servile compliance;showing too great a willingness to serve or obey
officious, pg. 181
Assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way, esp. with regard to petty or trivial matters. 2. Intrusively enthusiastic in offering help or advice; interfering.
precipitate, pg. 197
to throw violently : hurl; to throw headlong; hurl downward; to cause to happen before expected,
prodigiously, pg. 194
Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree. 2. Unnatural or abnormal. extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force; a obsolete : being an omen : portentous b : resembling or befitting a prodigy : strange, unusual (see prodigy). 2. : exciting amazement or wonder
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