Miss Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, is the definitive obstinate and headstrong girl, who has inspired women, young and old, for centuries with her wit and charms. How could Mr. Darcy help but fall in love with her?
I have found so many of Elizabeth’s sayings to be memorable in their own way—indeed, inspiring, and have collected a few of them below, presented in order of occurrence throughout the pages of Pride and Prejudice.
Enjoy!
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
“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.”
“I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
“My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners–my behavior to you was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not. Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?”
“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
