Jane Austen Quotes About Mrs Bennet
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Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.
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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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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.
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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.
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I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
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And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
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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.
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My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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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.
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