Quotes with mileage - Austen’s Pride and Prejudice revision

Pride and Prejudice quotes to learn with mileage to explore themes, character and context. Revision for GCSE English Literature, Jane Austen's 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.’

‘Mr Darcy may perhaps have heard of such a place as Gracechurch Street, but he would hardly think a month’s ablution enough to cleanse him from its impurities, were he once to enter it’.

‘We were born in the same parish, within the same park; the greatest part of our youth was passed together; inmates of the same house sharing the same amusements, objects of the same parental care.’

‘I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh… whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish.’

‘A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word.’

‘It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable. My situation in life, my connections with the family of De Bourgh, and my relationship to your own, are circumstances highly in my favour; and you should take it into farther consideration that in spite of your manifold attractions, it is by no means certain that another offer of marriage may ever be made you.’

‘You will laugh when you know where I am gone, and I cannot help laughing myself at your surprise tomorrow morning, as soon as I am missed.’

‘One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.’

‘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 Collins, to be sure, was neither sensible nor agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary. But still he would be her husband. Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune.’

‘She grew absolutely ashamed of herself. Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think without feeling that she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd.’

‘Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?’