Quotes About Elizabeth Bennet

#1. Elizabeth Bennet, will you do me the great honor of not going to prom with me?

Elizabeth Eulberg

#2. Elizabeth Bennet: I'm very fond of walking. Mr. Darcy: Yes... yes I know. (from Pride & Prejudice, the movie)

Jane Austen

#3. I should mortify a dozen Sir Johns if it might aid my investigation." - Elizabeth Bennet

Debbie Cowens

#4. A naive, excitable teenaged reader is a beautiful thing. Someone who's never heard of Elizabeth Bennet or Jay Gatsby, until you tell him. And they all still believe in truth. That's the fun of it.

Holly LeCraw

#5. Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.
-Elizabeth Bennet

Jane Austen

#6. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

Jane Austen

#7. Heathcliff and Cathy, like Lady Chatterley and Oliver Mellors, like Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet!

Jandy Nelson

#8. Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?
- Elizabeth Bennet

Jane Austen

#9. Walking across the moors made me feel as if I'd stepped primly out of a Jane Austen book or an Impressionist painting. But I bet even Elizabeth Bennet had never punted a rabbit before, and my current count was 137.

Delilah S. Dawson

#10. This is it
what all the hoopla is about, what Wuthering Heights is about
it all boils down to this feeling rushing through me in this moment with Joe as our mouths refuse to part. Who knew all this time I was one kiss away from being Cathy and Juliet and Elizabeth Bennet and Lady Chatterley!?

Jandy Nelson

#11. Um, Mindy is much less like Elizabeth Bennet than she is a combination of Carrie Bradshaw and Eric Cartman.

Mindy Kaling

#12. Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their torturously slow-burning romance is a classic example of how men and women still struggle to communicate the most basic of emotions.

Mariella Frostrup

#13. She herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know.

Carol Shields

#14. It is doubtful whether Mrs Bennet missed the company of her second daughter, but her husband certainly did. Elizabeth had always been his favourite child.

P.D. James

#15. Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Jane Austen

#16. You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner. (Elizabeth Bennett)

Jane Austen

#17. Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.'
Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#18. And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the former were excited by his marrying me, it would not give me one moment's concern
and the world in general would have too much sense to join in the scorn.

Jane Austen

#19. This is the second time she has turned me down, and with an apparent attempt to affront me. How does she manage to disappoint and intrigue simultaneously?

Noe

#20. What was she to think? Oh, teasing, teasing man! It would be so much easier if he could simply tell her what he meant by all his confusing actions. And so she had another shock: Jane Bennet was irritated with Mr. Bingley.

Elizabeth Adams

#21. 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.

Jane Austen

#22. I must forever imagine myself comparing every man I meet to Mr. Darcy and finding the otherwise worthy gentleman wanting.

P.O. Dixon

#23. It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

P.D. James

#24. You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.

Jane Austen

#25. Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.

Mary Street

#26. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

Jane Austen

#27. When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over more pages than I read.

Mary Street

#28. I shall be perfectly content to spend time with Mr Darcy and enjoy his manner of flattering my ego, for I must confess he does it very well.

P.O. Dixon

#29. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

Jane Austen

#30. Mama will be pleased to know that her least favourite daughter is to be married."
"To her least favourite man in the world, no doubt. I clearly recall how Mrs. Bennet barely tolerated my presence when I visited Longbourne.

P.O. Dixon

#31. Elizabeth was excessively disappointed ... but it was her business to be satisfied - and certainly her temper to be happy; and all was soon right again.

Jane Austen

#32. There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Jane Austen

#33. I am excessively diverted.

Jane Austen

#34. They agreed, however, that they could wish them only as much joy as they had together, refusing to be dislodged from their position as the happiest couple in the world, by anyone.

Rebecca Ann Collins

#35. It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.

Jane Austen

#36. I hardened my heart against all the Bennets. - Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy.

Mary Street

#37. They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Jane Austen

#38. Elizabeth's tears had wrung my heart: I longed to enfold her in my arms, to comfort her, but I knew
it would be infamous indeed to take such advantage of her distress.

Mary Street

#39. I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Jane Austen

#40. Never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.

Seth Grahame-Smith