Kantz Quotes
List of Letters in Pride and Prejudice (20)
1)In chapter 7. Caroline Bingley to Jane inviting her to come to Netherfield. 2In chapter 7.Jane to Elizabeth reporting her illness. 3)In chapter 13.Mr Collins to Mr Bennet proposing to visit Longbourn. 4)In chapter 21.Caroline Bingley to Jane informing her that Netherfield party have all gone to London. 5)In chapter 26.Jane in London to Elizabeth still has hopes of Caroline Bingley's perfidy. 6)In chapter26.Jane in London to Elizabeth admitting Caroline Bingley's perfidy. 7)In chapter 26.Darcy's famous letter to Elizabeth planning his conduct. 8)In chadpter 35.Jane's misdirected letter to Elizabeth to Lambton. 9)In chapter 46.Jane' second letter to Elizabeth at Lambton breaking the news of Lydia's elopement. 10)In chapter47.Lydia to Mr Foster announcing the elopement. 11)In chapter 48.Mr Gardiner in London to Mrs Gardiner at Longbournon inquiries after Lydia and Wickham. 12)In chapter 48.Mr Collins to Mr Bennet(opened by Jane)he condoles the Bennet about Lydia. 13)In chapter 49.Mr Gardiner to Mr Bennet announcing the settlement of negotiations with Wickham. 14)In chapter50. Mr Gardiner to Mr Bennet containning further particulars of Wickham's affairs. 15)In chapter50.Elizabeth to Mrs Gardiner inquiring why Darcy was not at Lydia's wedding. 16)In chapter 52.Mrs Gardiner to Elizabeth giving the story behind the Lydia's wedding. 17)In Chapter 57.Mr Collins to Mr Bennet advising against on Elizabeth -Darcy match. 18)In chapter 60.Elizabeth to Mr Gardiner allowing her to give loose to her fancy and indulge her imagination. 19)In chapter 6.Mr Bennet to Mr Collins for congratulations. 20)In chapter 61.Ms Wickham to Mr Darcy Lydia begs Elizabeth on behalf of Wickham.
"O brother Montague, give me thy hand. / This is my daughter's jointure, for no more/ can I demand."
After Romeo and Juliet and Paris are all dead, the Capulet and Montague families collectively decide to make peace. - After an entire play of feuding between the Capulet and Montague families, it is a sign of dramatic change when the patriarchs agree to join together and make peace. That the death of their children is the only thing that can bring them peace shows how deeply rooted their odium is; it takes something extreme to reverse the tides.
"My poverty, but not my will, consents. / I pay thy poverty and not thy will"
After learning that Juliet is supposedly dead, Romeo, hoping to commit suicide, goes to an apothecary to buy some poison. The apothecary argues that he cannot in good conscience sell Romeo the poison, but Romeo entices the apothecary with lots of money and tells him it would be in the apothecary's best interest to take the money. The apothecary finally agrees, but not before retorting that he will accept the money not because he wants to but because he has to because of his poverty. - The quotation further explores the idea of fate vs free will. The apothecary acts the way he does not because he wants to but because of his situation. This invokes the idea of whether people can truly make their own decision or if they are simply prisoners of their conditions. Does Romeo want to go back to Verona and commit suicide because he actually believes it is the right thing to do or is he simply acting out of love? Can humans really control anything or are we simply the products of our emotions and environment? The apothecary makes it seem as if humans cannot in fact control anything. Nevertheless, the questions which the apothecary's remarks bring up tie into the play's theme of fate vs free-will
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact. Algernon (7) You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Algernon
Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life
Algernon
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
Aunt Augusta
They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
Aunt Augusta
"Ha, let me see her! Out, alas, she's cold. Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff. Life and these lips have long been separated. Death lies on her like an ultimate frost. Upon the sweetest flower of all the field,"
Capulet just found out that his daughter died. - This is significant because this is Capulet's first reaction to when he hears that his daughter is dead. There is also love imagery in passage as she received a kiss of death
Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail, Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak
Capulet just learned the death of his daughter and said this line before the arrival of Friar Lawrence - Capulet personifies death and expresses his sorrow for the loss of his daughter. He protested against fortune, yet he couldn't change the fate of his child.
Themes + Motifs of Pride and Prejudice (19)
Cards, Reason v Emotion, Appearances v Reality, Mercenary, Pursuit of Happiness, Edmund Burke (Observing Social Order), False Modesty, Manners make a man, what do we do to be accepted by society, Conversation, Letters, Class, Pride, Prejudice, Dancing, Games, the military, role of women, Love
" It would hardly have been a really serious engagement if it hadn't been broken off at least once. But I forgave you before the week was out."
Cecily
"If you are not, then you have certainly been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable manner. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy."
Cecily
I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
Cecily
Oh, I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
Cecily
Dr. Chasuble is a most learned man. He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows."
Cecily to Algernon when Algernon wants to get christened
"Perhaps he must, if he sees enough of her. But, though Bingley and Jane meet tolerably often, it is never for many hours together; and, as they always see each other in large mixed parties, it is impossible that every moment should be employed in conversing together. Jane should therefore make the most of every half-hour in which she can command his attention. When she is secure of him, there will be more leisure for falling in love as much as she chooses."
Charlotte to Elizabeth describing Bingley and Jane
"Well, I wish Jane success with all my heart; and if she were married to him to-morrow, I should think she had as good a chance of happiness as if she were to be studying his character for a twelvemonth. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."
Charlotte to Elizabeth describing Jane
"No, I have made no such pretension. I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding—certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever."
Darcy describing his faults to Elizabeth
"Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together; and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged, as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible."
Darcy to Elizabeth while at a ball
"Your list of the common extent of accomplishments has too much truth. The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen. But I am very far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general. I cannot boast of knowing more than half-a-dozen, in the whole range of my acquaintance, that are really accomplished."
Darcy to Miss Bingley when at the ball
"And of this place, I might have been mistress! With these rooms I might now have been familiarly acquainted! Instead of viewing them as a stranger, I might have rejoiced in them as my own, and welcomed to them as visitors my uncle and aunt. But no,"—recollecting herself—"that could never be; my uncle and aunt would have been lost to me; I should not have been allowed to invite them."
Elizabeth at Pemberley, thinking about what could have been (and what will be)
"Heaven forbid! That would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! Do not wish me such an evil."
Elizabeth describing Mr. Darcy
"That is a failing indeed! Implacable resentment is a shade in a character. But you have chosen your fault well. I really cannot laugh at it. You are safe from me."
Elizabeth describing Mr. Darcy's failing
"How despicably I have acted! I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust! How humiliating is this discovery! Yet, how just a humiliation! Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind! But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself."
Elizabeth feeling bad about herself in the wake of receiving Darcy's letter
"Oh! I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say 'Yes,' that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore, made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all—and now despise me if you dare."
Elizabeth rejecting Darcy when he asks her to dance
"What will be his surprise, when he knows who they are? He takes them now for people of fashion."
Elizabeth thinking about Darcy and the Gardiners
"Why is he so altered? From what can it proceed? It cannot be for me—it cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened. My reproofs at Hunsford could not work such a change as this. It is impossible that he should still love me."
Elizabeth thinking about Darcy's change in behavior
"Your plan is a good one, where nothing is in question but the desire of being well married, and if I were determined to get a rich husband, or any husband, I dare say I should adopt it. But these are not Jane's feelings; she is not acting by design. As yet, she cannot even be certain of the degree of her own regard nor of its reasonableness. She has known him only a fortnight. She danced four dances with him at Meryton; she saw him one morning at his own house, and has since dined with him in company four times. This is not quite enough to make her understand his character."
Elizabeth to Charlotte describing Bingley and Jane
Both, for I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds. We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb."
Elizabeth to Darcy while at a ball
"To oblige you, I would try to believe almost anything, but no one else could be benefited by such a belief as this; for were I persuaded that Charlotte had any regard for him, I should only think worse of her understanding than I now do of her heart. My dear Jane, Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking. You shall not defend her, though it is Charlotte Lucas. You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness."
Elizabeth to Jane
"Nay, this is not fair. You wish to think all the world respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of anybody. I only want to think you perfect, and you set yourself against it. Do not be afraid of my running into any excess, of my encroaching on your privilege of universal good-will. You need not. There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense. I have met with two instances lately, one I will not mention; the other is Charlotte's marriage. It is unaccountable! In every view it is unaccountable!"
Elizabeth to Jane describing recent events of the Bingleys leaving and Charlotte's marriage
"This will not do, you never will be able to make both of them good for anything. Take your choice, but you must be satisfied with only one. There is but such a quantity of merit between them; just enough to make one good sort of man; and of late it has been shifting about pretty much. For my part, I am inclined to believe it all Darcy's; but you shall do as you choose."
Elizabeth to Jane discussing Wickham v Darcy
"It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some sort of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples."
Elizabeth to Mr. Darcy while at a ball
"An excellent consolation in its way, but it will not do for us. We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before."
Elizabeth to Mrs. Gardiner discussing the falling apart of Jane and Bingley's relationship
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Gwendolen
"Outside the family circle, papa, I am glad to say, is entirely unknown. I think that is quite as it should be. The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man"
Gwendolen to Cecily
"I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins / That almost freezes up the heat of life."
It is the night before Juliet and Paris' wedding, Juliet is ready to drink the vial that Lawrence gave her and be fake dead - This quote foreshadows the tragic ending of Romeo and Juliet and it shows Juliet can feel her own doom is coming. Juliet also is disappointed about her life because of the banishment of Romeo. This quote shows the conflict between the free life and fate. Juliet criticizes how tiny human is compared to fate/nature.
"On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest."
Jack
"My dear Lizzy, do not give way to such feelings as these. They will ruin your happiness. You do not make allowance enough for difference of situation and temper. Consider Mr. Collins's respectability, and Charlotte's steady, prudent character. Remember that she is one of a large family; that as to fortune, it is a most eligible match; and be ready to believe, for everybody's sake, that she may feel something like regard and esteem for our cousin."
Jane making the case for happiness to Elizabeth
"Would you believe it, Lizzy, that when he went to town last November, he really loved me, and nothing but a persuasion of my being indifferent would have prevented his coming down again!"
Jane to Elizabeth describing Mr. Bennet not knowing they were in London at the same time
"I do not know when I have been more shocked, Wickham so very bad! It is almost past belief. And poor Mr. Darcy! Dear Lizzy, only consider what he must have suffered. Such a disappointment! and with the knowledge of your ill opinion, too! and having to relate such a thing of his sister! It is really too distressing. I am sure you must feel it so."
Jane to Elizabeth discussing Wickham v Darcy
"O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
Juliet is sitting by her bedroom window as she is professing her frustration about their unattainable love not knowing that Romeo is hiding in the bushes below - This is important because this quotation explains that the family rivalry is preventing their love, and this sums up the play in one quotation. This also shows Juliet's headstrong nature and foreshadows the problems that follow Romeo and Juliet's star-crossed love.
Ancient damnation, O most wicked fiend! Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue which she hath praised him with above compare so many thousand times? Go, counselor. Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. I'll to the Friar to know his remedy. If all else fail, myself have power to die.
Juliet's nurse has just urged Juliet to marry Paris and forget about Romeo. When the nurse leaves, Juliet explodes with anger. - In this scene, Juliet feels that the Nurse, her caretaker from birth, has just betrayed her by suggesting that Juliet would be better off with Paris. Juliet now feels that she has no one else to turn to except for the Friar. She also reveals just how far she is willing to go for Romeo, as she says she will commit suicide if all else fails, foreshadowing the finale of the play. This scene expands on the theme of how love changes people, as Juliet's opinion of the Nurse rapidly changes when the Nurse suggests something negative about Romeo.
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
Lady Bracknell
"As often as I can. But you know married women have never much time for writing. My sisters may write to me. They will have nothing else to do."
Lydia, about to leave with Wickham, talking to Mrs. Bennet
"This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation."
Mary being Mary while talking about Lydia
"Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this useful lesson: that loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex."
Mary being an ass while talking about Lydia
"I admire the activity of your benevolence, but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required."
Mary describing whether or not Elizabeth should walk to Netherfield
"Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures! They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me—I should infinitely prefer a book."
Mary disdaining Kitty and Lydia
"Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. 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.
Mary to Elizabeth describing Mr. Darcy
"A plague o' both your houses!"
Mercutio has just been fatally wounded by Tybalt. As he dies, he curses both the Montague house and the Capulet house - The words of Mercutio foreshadow the loss that both families will feel by the end of the play. Ties in with the theme of fate or destiny.
"Oh! certainly," cried his faithful assistant, "no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half- deserved."
Miss Bingley describing the ideal woman to Darcy
"For my own part, I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her. Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants character—there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I could never see anything extraordinary in them. They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable."
Miss Bingley maligning Elizabeth in front of Darcy
"How very ill Miss Eliza Bennet looks this morning, Mr. Darcy, I never in my life saw anyone so much altered as she is since the winter. She is grown so brown and coarse! Louisa and I were agreeing that we should not have known her again."
Miss Bingley maligning Elizabeth in front of Darcy
"Pray, Miss Eliza, are not the ——shire Militia removed from Meryton? They must be a great loss to your family."
Miss Bingley to Elizabeth making fun of the younger Bennet's sister's propensity for officers
"Mr. Darcy is impatient to see his sister; and, to confess the truth, we are scarcely less eager to meet her again. I really do not think Georgiana Darcy has her equal for beauty, elegance, and accomplishments; and the affection she inspires in Louisa and myself is heightened into something still more interesting, from the hope we dare entertain of her being hereafter our sister. I do not know whether I ever before mentioned to you my feelings on this subject; but I will not leave the country without confiding them, and I trust you will not esteem them unreasonable. My brother admires her greatly already; he will have frequent opportunity now of seeing her on the most intimate footing; her relations all wish the connection as much as his own; and a sister's partiality is not misleading me, I think, when I call Charles most capable of engaging any woman's heart. With all these circumstances to favour an attachment, and nothing to prevent it, am I wrong, my dearest Jane, in indulging the hope of an event which will secure the happiness of so many?"
Miss Bingley's letter to the Bennets describing their abrupt departure
"His pride does not offend me so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it. One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself. If I may so express it, he has a right to be proud."
Miss Lucas to Elizabeth describing Mr. Darcy
"Cecily, Cecily! Surely such a utilitarian occupation as the watering of flowers is rather Moulton's duty than yours? Especially at a moment when intellectual pleasures await you. "
Miss Prism
"You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?"
Mr. Bennet sarcastically insulting Collins
"You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it! No, Lizzy, let me once in my life feel how much I have been to blame. I am not afraid of being overpowered by the impression. It will pass away soon enough."
Mr. Bennet to Elizabeth discussing Lydia
"Pardon me for interrupting you, madam, but if she is really headstrong and foolish, I know not whether she would altogether be a very desirable wife to a man in my situation, who naturally looks for happiness in the marriage state. If therefore she actually persists in rejecting my suit, perhaps it were better not to force her into accepting me, because if liable to such defects of temper, she could not contribute much to my felicity."
Mr. Collins describing Elizabeth to Mrs. Bennet"Sir, you quite misunderstand me," said Mrs. Bennet, alarmed. "Lizzy is only headstrong in such matters as these. In everything else she is as good-natured a girl as ever lived. I will go directly to Mr. Bennet, and we shall very soon settle it with her, I am sure."
"She is a most charming young lady indeed. Lady Catherine herself says that, in point of true beauty, Miss de Bourgh is far superior to the handsomest of her sex, because there is that in her features which marks the young lady of distinguished birth. She is unfortunately of a sickly constitution, which has prevented her from making that progress in many accomplishments which she could not have otherwise failed of, as I am informed by the lady who superintended her education, and who still resides with them. But she is perfectly amiable, and often condescends to drive by my humble abode in her little phaeton and ponies."
Mr. Collins discussing Ms. De Bourgh
"Her indifferent state of health unhappily prevents her being in town; and by that means, as I told Lady Catherine one day, has deprived the British court of its brightest ornament. Her ladyship seemed pleased with the idea; and you may imagine that I am happy on every occasion to offer those little delicate compliments which are always acceptable to ladies. I have more than once observed to Lady Catherine, that her charming daughter seemed born to be a duchess, and that the most elevated rank, instead of giving her consequence, would be adorned by her. These are the kind of little things which please her ladyship, and it is a sort of attention which I conceive myself peculiarly bound to pay."
Mr. Collins discussing his creepy manners
"I have not the smallest objection to explaining them, You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking; if the first, I would be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire."
Mr. Darcy explaining the two possible reasons Elizabeth and Miss Bingley could be walking around
"Oh! dear, yes; but you must own she is very plain. Lady Lucas herself has often said so, and envied me Jane's beauty. I do not like to boast of my own child, but to be sure, Jane— one does not often see anybody better looking. It is what everybody says. I do not trust my own partiality. When she was only fifteen, there was a man at my brother Gardiner's in town so much in love with her that my sister-in-law was sure he would make her an offer before we came away. But, however, he did not. Perhaps he thought her too young. However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were."
Mrs. Bennet complimenting Jane
"Oh! my dear brother, that is exactly what I could most wish for. And now do, when you get to town, find them out, wherever they may be; and if they are not married already, make them marry. And as for wedding clothes, do not let them wait for that, but tell Lydia she shall have as much money as she chooses to buy them, after they are married. And, above all, keep Mr. Bennet from fighting. Tell him what a dreadful state I am in, that I am frighted out of my wits—and have such tremblings, such flutterings, all over me—such spasms in my side and pains in my head, and such beatings at heart, that I can get no rest by night nor by day. And tell my dear Lydia not to give any directions about her clothes till she has seen me, for she does not know which are the best warehouses. Oh, brother, how kind you are! I know you will contrive it all."
Mrs. Bennet giving instructions to Mr. Gardiner about Lydia and Wickham
"I do not blame Jane, for Jane would have got Mr. Bingley if she could. But Lizzy! Oh, sister! It is very hard to think that she might have been Mr. Collins's wife by this time, had it not been for her own perverseness. He made her an offer in this very room, and she refused him. The consequence of it is, that Lady Lucas will have a daughter married before I have, and that the Longbourn estate is just as much entailed as ever. The Lucases are very artful people indeed, sister. They are all for what they can get. I am sorry to say it of them, but so it is. It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else. However, your coming just at this time is the greatest of comforts, and I am very glad to hear what you tell us, of long sleeves."
Mrs. Bennet lamenting to the Gardiners about the two failed marriage prospects
"It is a delightful thing, to be sure, to have a daughter well married, but at the same time, Mr. Bingley, it is very hard to have her taken such a way from me. They are gone down to Newcastle, a place quite northward, it seems, and there they are to stay I do not know how long. His regiment is there; for I suppose you have heard of his leaving the ——shire, and of his being gone into the regulars. Thank Heaven! he has some friends, though perhaps not so many as he deserves."
Mrs. Bennet to Bingley and Co. describing Lydia and Wickham
"Aye, there she comes, looking as unconcerned as may be, and caring no more for us than if we were at York, provided she can have her own way. But I tell you, Miss Lizzy—if you take it into your head to go on refusing every offer of marriage in this way, you will never get a husband at all—and I am sure I do not know who is to maintain you when your father is dead. I shall not be able to keep you—and so I warn you. I have done with you from this very day. I told you in the library, you know, that I should never speak to you again, and you will find me as good as my word. I have no pleasure in talking to undutiful children. Not that I have much pleasure, indeed, in talking to anybody. People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking. Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied."
Mrs. Bennet to Elizabeth after she rejects Collins
"Oh! Mr. Bennet, you are wanted immediately; we are all in an uproar. You must come and make Lizzy marry Mr. Collins, for she vows she will not have him, and if you do not make haste he will change his mind and not have her."
Mrs. Bennet to Mr. Bennet
"I never can be thankful, Mr. Bennet, for anything about the entail. How anyone could have the conscience to entail away an estate from one's own daughters, I cannot understand; and all for the sake of Mr. Collins too! Why should he have it more than anybody else?"
Mrs. Bennet to Mr. Bennet describing the entail
"No, she would go home. I fancy she was wanted about the mince-pies. For my part, Mr. Bingley, I always keep servants that can do their own work; my daughters are brought up very differently. But everybody is to judge for themselves, and the Lucases are a very good sort of girls, I assure you. It is a pity they are not handsome! Not that I think Charlotte so very plain—but then she is our particular friend."
Mrs. Bennet to Mr. Bingley while maligning Charlotte
"Sir, you quite misunderstand me, Lizzy is only headstrong in such matters as these. In everything else she is as good-natured a girl as ever lived. I will go directly to Mr. Bennet, and we shall very soon settle it with her, I am sure."
Mrs. Bennet trying to save Mr. Collin's marriage proposal
Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat
Paradise Lost Invocation
"O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon,/ That monthly changes in her circled orb,/ Lest that thy love prove likewise variable."
Romeo and Juliet are discussing their love in the Capulet garden. Romeo begins to swear his love for Juliet on the moon, however Juliet interrupts and asks him not to swear by the moon - This passage reveals Juliet's sensibility. She does not want any part of Romeo's flowery language and Petrarchan ways. During the scene in the garden, Juliet's sensibility is often juxtaposed with Romeo's resemblance of a Petrarchan lover. Juliet describes the moon as inconstant, for it waxes and wanes. Juliet does not want Romeo's love to be inconstant, like the moon. The moon also represents the goddess Diana, the goddess of chastity and the hunt. Juliet's repudiation of the moon shows how she does not want to be objectified and chased like during a hunt. Once again, the christianity motif appears, for Juliet is rejecting a pagan God
"O blessèd, blessèd night! I am afeard, Being in night, all this is but a dream, Too flattering sweet to be substantial."
Romeo has snuck into the Capulet's garden to seek out Juliet. They converse for some time. However Romeo is left alone in the garden for a brief period during the balcony scene, while Juliet is responding to her nurse's call. Juliet asks Romeo to stay alone for a little bit, as she'll soon return. As Romeo stands alone in the garden, he marvels at his fortune in meeting Juliet - This quote expands on the motif of dreams, the motif of night and day, and the theme of appearances versus reality. Throughout the play, there is a binary dichotomy to the actions taking place in the day and those that happen at night. Romeo and Juliet's love must be hidden under the cover of night, consequently many of the most joyful moments take place in darkness. Similar to the Queen Mab speech in act, Romeo's mention of dream questions the fabric of reality. Is his love with Juliet really real? Or is it all simply a dream.... Likewise, he questions whether the appearance of his love and encounter be too "flattering sweet" to be real, or "substantial". The use of the word "blessed" references their first meeting, based around a metaphorical pilgrimage. Once again, their love is so serious it has almost taken a religious dimension.
Stay not, begone, live and hereafter say / A madman's mercy bid thee run away
Romeo's gradual descent into madness is clearly illustrated after he meets Paris in the burial vault, and asks Paris to stay away from Romeo. - Romeo's gradual descent into madness is clearly illustrated after he meets Paris in the burial vault, and asks Paris to stay away from Romeo.
Aye mr, thet little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain, Under what torments inwardly I groan: While they adore me on the throne of Hell, With diadem and scepter high advanced The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.
Satan
"If I profane with my unworthiest hand / This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: / My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand / To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."
This is Romeo's first words to Juliet when he approaches her at the Capulet party. He takes her hand and proclaims that he wishes to kiss her - This quote shows how Romeo loved Juliet at first sight. It portrays Romeo as a Petrarchan lover. Romeo also introduces the pilgrim and saint imagery that he uses to seduce Juliet.
"Alas that love, so gentle in his view, / Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!"
This quote occurs when Benvolio is commiserating with Romeo over Rosaline's rejection of his love. - This quote foreshadows the downsides of love. At the start, Romeo and Juliet's love seems gentle. However, their love causes the death of Mercutio, Tybalt, Paris and eventually themselves. This quote clearly describes the theme that love can be dangerous and have a mind of it's own.
