Elizabeth Bennet

Character in Pride and Prejudice From: Pride and Prejudice

Protagonist; witty and intelligent heroine who challenges social conventions

375 quotes

"I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion."
Love
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."
Friendship
"You have delighted us long enough."
Humor
"I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has not the smallest concern for that poor girl."
"You cannot, I think, want to hear me declare that I am not one of those ladies who expect a man to do all the work."
Strength
"Perhaps I was too much occupied by my own feelings to do him justice."
Truth
"How despicably I have acted!"
Courage
"Business cannot excuse neglect of civility toward anybody."
Kindness
"Let me not be hasty in my judgment."
Wisdom
"You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it."
Truth
"I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds."
Relationships
"You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it."
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously."
Wisdom
"I love you. I am who I am because of you."
Love
"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."
Strength
"The distance is nothing when one has a motive."
Love
"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."
Friendship
"I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect in his character."
Truth
"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."
Wisdom
"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy."
Relationships
"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
Humor
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
"Anger with some people may be a temporary feeling, but with me, it is an art."
"The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it."
Life
"You cannot seriously mean to persuade me that you have long been wishing his connection."
Truth
"Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me."
Humor
"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."
Courage
"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation."
Love
"My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."
Courage