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- Author: Jane Austen
- Published: January 28, 1813
- Narrator: Third-person omniscient
- Setting: Rural England, 1800-1813
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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a romantic comedy novel set in the Georgian era. It was first published in 1813, and is one of Austen's most famous and popular works. Pride and Prejudice has been adapted into numerous films and television series, the most recent being the 2005 version that featured Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfayden.
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Characters
- Elizabeth Bennet: 20 year old female protagonist, romantic interest of Mr. Darcy
- Fitzwilliam Darcy: 28 year old male protagonist, romantic interest of Elizabeth
- Mr. Bennet: Father of Elizabeth, intellectual who does not connect well with his wife and 3 youngest daughters
- Mrs. Bennet: Mother of Elizabeth, frivolous and occasionally rude. She is intent on finding wealthy husbands for all of her daughters
- Jane Bennet: 22 year old sister of Elizabeth
- Mary Bennet: 18 year old sister of Elizabeth
- Catherine Bennet: 17 year old sister of Elizabeth
- Lydia Bennet: 15 year old sister of Elizabeth
- Charles Bingley: 22 year old bachelor that lives on a neighboring estate
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Pride and Prejudice Top Quotes
- Wikiquote: Pride and Prejudice
- "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." -Narrator, Ch. 1
- "Affectation of candour is common enough— one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design— to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad— belongs to you alone." -Elizabeth, Ch. 4
- "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment." -Ch. 6
- "Women fancy admiration means more than it does."
- "And men take care that they should." -Ch. 24
- "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" -Mr. Bennet
- "The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do." -Narrator, Ch. 58
- SparkNotes: Important Pride and Prejudice Quotes Explained
- "Which do you mean?” and turning round, he looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till catching her eye, he withdrew his own and coldly said, “She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me." -Mr. Darcy, Ch. 3
- "In vain have I 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." -Mr. Darcy, Ch. 34
- "You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever." -Mr. Darcy, Ch. 58
- LitQuotes: Pride and Prejudice
- "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."
- "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
- NovelGuide: Top 10 Pride and Prejudice Quotes
- "I have no wish of denying that I did every thing in my power to separate my friend from your sister, or that I rejoice in my success. Towards him I have been kinder than towards myself" -Mr. Darcy, p.223
- "You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner" -Elizabeth, p.224
- "There was certainly at this moment, in Elizabeth's mind, a more gentle sensation towards the original, that she had ever felt in the height of their acquaintance" -Narrator, p.272
- Jane Austen Quote of the Day: Pride and Prejudice
- "He is such a disagreeable man that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him." -Mrs. Bennet, Ch.5
- "Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never." -Elizabeth, Ch.4
Pride and Prejudice Quotes Questions
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