Top 5 quotes?
ALRIGHT SO BASICALLy i was going to find these quotes but the only book near me was my beautiful hardcover copy of pride and prejudice and i thought well, there are so many great quotes in p&p so here are 5 of my favs !!
Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; but there was a mixture of sweetness and archness in her manner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody; and Darcy had never been bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her cinnections, he should be in some danger. [volume one, chapter ten]
‘Do let us have some music,’ - cried Miss Bingley, tired of a conversation in which she had no share. - ‘Louisa, you will not mind my waking Mr Hurst.’ Her sister made no the smallest objection, and the piano-forte was opened, and Darcy, after a few moments recollection, was not sorry for it. He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention. [volume one, chapter eleven]
In the gallery there were many family portraits, but they could have little to fix the attention of a stranger. Elizabeth walked on in quest of the only face whose features would be known to her. At last it arrested her - and she beheld a striking resemblance of Mr Darcy, with such a smile over the face, as she remembered to have sometimes seen, when he looked at her. She stood several minutes before the picture in earnest contemplation, and returned to it again before they quitted the gallery. [volume three, chapter one]
Her power was sinking; every thing must sink under such a proof of family weakness, such an assurance of the deepest disgrace. She could neither wonder nor condemn, but the belief of his self-conquest brought nothing consolatory to her bosom, afforded no palliation of her distress. It was, on the contrary, exactly calculated to make her understand her own wishes; and never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain. [volume three, chapter four]
‘…Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.’ [volume three, chapter sixteen]
do you understand why i love this book?? yeah there are a lot of commas but do you see the romance?? the perfection?? i will absolutely adore pride and prejudice forever and there’s a reason for that !!
