Quotes from Pride and Prejudice

Who said, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"?

• Mr. Darcy

• Elizabeth Bennet

• Narrator

• Mr. Collins

Which character declared, "I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine"?

• Mr. Darcy

• Elizabeth Bennet

• Jane Bennet

• Mrs. Bennet

Who famously said, "You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you"?

• Mr. Bingley

• Mr. Collins

• Mr. Darcy

• Mr. Wickham

Identify the speaker of this humorous line: "My dear Miss Elizabeth, why are you not dancing? Mr. Darcy, you cannot refuse to dance, I am sure, when so much beauty is before you."

• Mr. Collins

• Mr. Bingley

• Mr. Darcy

• Mr. Bennet

Who remarked, "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?"

• Mr. Darcy

• Elizabeth Bennet

• Mr. Bennet

• Mrs. Bennet

Who said, "I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any"?

• Elizabeth Bennet

• Mr. Darcy

• Charlotte Lucas

• Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Which character expressed, "In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed"?

• Mr. Bingley

• Mr. Darcy

• Mr. Collins

• Mr. Wickham

Who humorously stated, "I am not romantic, you know; I never was. I ask only a comfortable home"?

• Elizabeth Bennet

• Mr. Collins

• Charlotte Lucas

• Lydia Bennet

Who said, "I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man"?

• Elizabeth Bennet

• Jane Bennet

• Lydia Bennet

• Mary Bennet

Who declared, "I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle"?

• Mr. Darcy

• Mr. Collins

• Mr. Bingley

• Mr. Wickham