Elizabeth Bennet

Character in Pride and Prejudice From: Pride and Prejudice

Protagonist; witty and intelligent heroine who challenges social conventions

375 quotes

"You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it."
Relationships
"Angry as I was with him, I cannot deny that there was some truth in his representation."
Truth
"Business for you may be a pleasure, but it is not so for me."
Work
"I am perfectly resolved on one point: that if I do change my mind, I shall do it at a much slower pace than I changed it before."
Change
"The liberty I claim for myself, I readily concede to you."
Freedom
"I wish I could say anything to convince you of its being improbable."
Truth
"Let me not be hasty in my judgement."
Patience
"I cannot accept him. He is too disagreeable."
Relationships
"I have been considering how very little benefit there is in anything Lady Catherine would do for me."
"I hope I never ridicule what is wise and good."
Wisdom
"I am convinced that one mean, scheming man may be made as miserable as he deserves."
Justice
"There is very little intelligence between you, which will make the confinement still more irksome."
Relationships
"You have shown me how insufficient my own merit is."
"I am not afraid of you."
Courage
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."
Friendship
"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."
Courage
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."
Humor
"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
Humor
"I am now convinced, by your own account, that you were wholly unexceptionable."
Relationships
"I do not believe I have ever heard you speak ill of any human being at all."
Kindness
"Till I can forget his past behaviour, I cannot be easy in conversation with him."
"We have not in the least been throwing away our affections without return."
Love
"My good qualities are under your protection."
Relationships
"You know me too well to doubt my meaning."
Relationships
"I dearly love a laugh; and there is a great deal of fun in their lives."
Humor
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."
Friendship
"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
Humor
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."
Friendship
"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
Wisdom