Does anyone else want a thread of Pride and Prejudice quotes?

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Want to share some favourite lines, for fun? Ideally just from memory, and from the book not the films. But no rules really.

“But time and her aunt moved slowly.”

When Elizabeth and Darcy are making painstaking conversation about Matlock and Dovedale on the lawn at Pemberly, while they wait for the Gardiners.

... a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife...

I often have this come into my head when people comment about a partner having a good job etc.

You have delighted us long enough.

‘Allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.’

Darcy to Elizabeth, but from
memory so may not be entirely correct

Completely accurate!

It's so quotable!

"I must have my share in the conversation" is one I drop into everyday scenarios quite a lot.

And more seriously, I like this one. As a bit of a mantra.

My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Great thread! You've already got all mine but I'll lurk in the hope of more!

"I am all astonishment ". - but I need to read the book again in case I am just quoting the BBC adaptation.

“I should like balls infinitely better,' she replied, 'if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably tedious in the usual process of such a meeting. It would surely be much more rational if conversation instead of dancing were made the order of the day.'

'Much more rational, my dear Caroline, I dare say, but it would not be near so much like a ball.“

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

I think mumsnet would back this up to some degree

"Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins. And I will never see you again if you do.” 😅

I don't know if it is in the book but I like quoting the 1995 production "I am seriously displeased". Also, as another poster has already quoted "you have delighted us long enough."

So many good ones here already!

I’m not sure if it’s a book or just the 1995 drama but I love when Lizzie is telling Mariah to ignore Lady Catherine - “This is your trunk. These are your gowns. Lady Catherine will never know,”

And Mr Bennet feeling is remorse - “I am heartily ashamed of myself, Lizzy" and "I am not afraid of being overpowered by the impression". Always reminds me of Mr Knightly’s rebuke to Emma - “badly done, Emma, badly done.” Jane Austen doesn’t shy away from letting her characters feel the full force of their actions!

Angry people are not always wise.

”Maria, these are your gowns, you may arrange them however you wish. Lady Catherine will never know.”

“Mr Collins was an obsequious man”- remembered from my O level over 45 years ago!

I think it’s from the 1995 adaptation only BUT “I say STAIRCASES because she has SEVERAL” always tickles me

I have read the book many times but watched the 1995 adaption many more. So a lot of these are voiced by the actors in my head.

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?
Obstinate, headstrong girl!
And if I had ever learned, I should have been a true proficient.

I had a poster made of all my favourite quotes!

"If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient"

"You must allow me to insist on this"

"You take delight in vexing me"

"In vain have I struggled"

"And we mean to treat you all but you must lend us the money for we have just spent ours"

And my favourite one "I find I can bear the solitude very well" which I use a lot

“I thought at least the pig had got into the garden”

My favourite of all time is the BBC adaptation. I am so glad to see all my favourite quotes above. I will have to try hard to think of more 😁

I came on to say this. I often think it to myself at work if someone's presentation is going on and on!