Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

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

Lizzy is not a bit better than the others; and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good-humoured as Lydia. But you are always giving her the preference.”

“they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.”

how can you abuse your own children in such a way?

Oh but you can get away with it?

having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.

His character was decided. He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.

“Oh! She is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld! But there is one of her sisters sitting down just behind you, who is very pretty, and I dare say very agreeable. Do let me ask my partner to introduce you.”

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous.

“Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

Between him and Darcy there was a very steady friendship, in spite of great opposition of character.

“That is very true,” replied Elizabeth, “and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

“You make me laugh, Charlotte; but it is not sound. You know it is not sound, and that you would never act in this way yourself.”

Elizabeth was far from suspecting that she was herself becoming an object of some interest in the eyes of his friend. 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.

to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

“If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it.”

“Well, my dear,” said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, “if your 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, and under your orders.”

His anxiety for Jane was evident,

“It shows an affection for her sister that is very pleasing,” said Bingley.

“Miss Eliza Bennet,” said Miss Bingley, “despises cards. She is a great reader, and has no pleasure in anything else.”

“I deserve neither such praise nor such censure,” cried Elizabeth; “I am not a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things.”

“All young ladies accomplished! My dear Charles, what do you mean?”

“I am exceedingly gratified,” said Bingley, “by your converting what my friend says into a compliment on the sweetness of my temper.

Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that

were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger.

patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh,

“He must be an oddity, I think,” said she. “I cannot make him out.—There is something very pompous in his style.—And

GIRL

His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped,

“I dare say you will find him very agreeable.” “Heaven forbid! That would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! Do not wish me such an evil.”

I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds. We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.”

Of having another daughter married to Mr. Collins, she thought with equal certainty, and with considerable, though not equal, pleasure. Elizabeth was the least dear to her of all her children; and though the man and the match were quite good enough for her, the worth of each was eclipsed by Mr. Bingley and Netherfield.

Almost as soon as I entered the house, I singled you out as the companion of my future life.

Gagging

“My reasons for marrying are,

this has me sending. Lizzie abort the mission. GTFO!!!! ANYTHING TO GET AWAY FROM MR. COLLINS!!!!

It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

No fucking shit

As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females.”

Bro read the room

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of 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.”

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

My dear Jane, Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

“If it is designedly done, they cannot be justified; but I have no idea of there being so much design in the world as some persons imagine.”

“Thank you, sir, but a less agreeable man would satisfy me.

but by everybody else Mr. Darcy was condemned as the worst of men.

“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

“From the very beginning—from the first moment, I may almost say—of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”

That he should have been in love with her for so many months! So much in love as to wish to marry her in spite of all the objections which had made him prevent his friend’s marrying her sister, and which must appear at least with equal force in his own case—was almost incredible!

If, in the explanation of them, which is due to myself, I am under the necessity of relating feelings which may be offensive to yours, I can only say that I am sorry.

Pardon me. It pains me to offend you.

“To be sure, Lizzy,” said her aunt, “he is not so handsome as Wickham; or, rather, he has not Wickham’s countenance, for his features are perfectly good. But how came you to tell me that he was so disagreeable?”

Wickham, Lydia, were all forgotten. Jane was beyond competition her favourite child.

what is to divide them? The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune. Is this to be endured! But it must not, shall not be.

fuck you