10 top favorite quotes
1. “There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.”
This quote really does not add any deep meaning to the whole novel but shows just how witty the interactions of the two main protagonists are.
2. “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
Women during this time period really did not have anything else to do other than pay attention to gossip and laugh and be laughed at. This humorous nature of this quote was quite amusing.
3. “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
Romantic…
4. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
The rest of it goes… that he is the property of one of the ladies in the area… opposite mentality of the usual mentality of owning the wife (other way around)
5. “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
A lady always changes their minds.. not always but they do change their minds quickly sometimes
6. "The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend."
First impressions matters
7. "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... So true
8. "To yield readily - easily - to the persuasion of a friend is no merit."
"To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either."
"You appear to me, Mr. Darcy, to allow nothing for the influence of friendship and affection."
Mr. Darcy, you will be persuaded by Elizabeth (spoiler alert)
9. "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
Reading is great!
10. "My good opinion once lost, is lost forever."
That is just a prejudice. Opinions change.
6 Magazine / June, 2014