Category Archives: Pride
He does not want abilities
“Mr. Darcy can please where he chuses. He does not want abilities. He can be a conversible companion if he thinks it worth his while. Among those who are at all his equals in consequence, he is a very different … Continue reading
Pride, his best friend
“I wonder that the very pride of this Mr. Darcy has not made him just to you! — If from no better motive, that he should not have been too proud to be dishonest, — for dishonesty I must call … Continue reading
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Filed under Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, Generosity, Money, Poverty, Power, Pride, Pride and Prejudice, Wealth, Wickham
Not a sensible man
MR. COLLINS was not a sensible man . . . The subjection in which his father had brought him up had given him originally great humility of manner, but it was now a good deal counteracted by the self-conceit of … Continue reading
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Filed under Humility, Money, Mr. Collins, Power, Pride, Pride and Prejudice, Wealth
If I were as rich as Darcy . . .
“If I were as rich as Mr. Darcy,” cried a young Lucas who came with his sisters, “I should not care how proud I was. I would keep a pack of foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine every day.” … Continue reading
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Pride, power & wealth
“One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, every thing in his favour, should think highly of himself. If I may so express it, he has a right to be proud.” Miss Lucas on Mr. … Continue reading
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Filed under Charlotte Lucas, Darcy, Money, Power, Pride, Pride and Prejudice, Wealth
Haughty, haughty
. . . Darcy was clever. He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious, and his manners, though well bred, were not inviting. In that respect his friend had greatly the advantage. Bingley was sure of being liked … Continue reading
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Filed under Character description, Darcy, Men, Mr. Bingley, Pride, Pride and Prejudice
Entitled to think well of themselves
They were in fact very fine ladies . . . but proud and conceited. They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the … Continue reading
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Filed under Miss Bingley, Money, On being a lady, Power, Pride, Pride and Prejudice, Shopping, Wealth
Little minds
“Where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones.” Emma on the small-minded Churchills Emma, volume 1, chapter 18
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Filed under Emma, Emma Woodhouse, Money, Mrs. Churchill, Pride, Wealth
An agreable flirt
“There is something about him that rather interests me, a sort of sauciness . . . he may be an agreable [sic] flirt. There is exquisite pleasure in subduing an insolent spirit, in making a person pre-determined to dislike, acknowledge … Continue reading
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A reputation for accomplishment
“She had always wanted to do everything, and had made more progress, both in drawing and music, than many might have done with so little labour as she would ever submit to. She played and sang — and drew in … Continue reading
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Filed under Education, Emma, Emma Woodhouse, Pride
