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They are records of failed manners, social defense, and a man discovering how much his restraint can wound." ], "quoteCards": [ { "quote": "She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me.", "speaker": "Mr. Darcy", "source": "Chapter 3", "label": "The insult", "note": "The line is devastating because it is casual. Darcy harms Elizabeth before he has even begun to know her." }, { "quote": "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.", "speaker": "Mr. Darcy", "source": "Chapter 6", "label": "Drawing-room defense", "note": "Darcy jokes like someone protecting himself from the joke becoming true." }, { "quote": "I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.", "speaker": "Mr. Darcy", "source": "Chapter 9", "label": "Careful flirtation", "note": "Even Darcy's teasing sounds like it has been edited for propriety." }, { "quote": "I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself.", "speaker": "Mr. Darcy", "source": "Chapter 11", "label": "A flaw admitted", "note": "He knows the defect exists before he knows how much it has governed him." } ] }, { "heading": "Lines that reveal the speaker", "body": [ "Darcy often sounds most honest when he is trying to explain why he sounds wrong." ], "quoteCards": [ { "quote": "I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.", "speaker": "Mr. Darcy", "source": "Chapter 31", "label": "Social failure", "note": "A rare self-diagnosis, and not nearly enough of an excuse." }, { "quote": "I should have judged better had I sought an introduction, but I am ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers.", "speaker": "Mr. Darcy", "source": "Chapter 31", "label": "Awkward honesty", "note": "Darcy names the problem before he understands what Elizabeth has already made of it." }, { "quote": "There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil.", "speaker": "Mr. Darcy", "source": "Chapter 11", "label": "Fault lines", "note": "A general observation that is more personal than he means it to be." }, { "quote": "Disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.", "speaker": "Mr. Darcy", "source": "Chapter 34", "label": "No disguise", "note": "He says this inside one of the least tactful declarations in the novel." } ] }, { "heading": "When the story changes temperature", "body": [ "Darcy becomes interesting because the novel makes him change in public, in private, and finally in language." ], "quoteCards": [ { "quote": "You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.", "speaker": "Mr. Darcy", "source": "Chapter 34", "label": "The proposal", "note": "The feeling is real. The manner is the problem." }, { "quote": "My affections and wishes are unchanged.", "speaker": "Mr. Darcy", "source": "Chapter 58", "label": "Still constant", "note": "The second declaration is quieter because Darcy has finally learned how to leave Elizabeth free." }, { "quote": "I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.", "speaker": "Mr. Darcy", "source": "Chapter 58", "label": "Self-knowledge", "note": "The apology works because he stops trying to sound admirable." }, { "quote": "I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.", "speaker": "Mr. Darcy", "source": "Chapter 60", "label": "Caught by feeling", "note": "Darcy explains love at last, and the explanation is almost charmingly helpless." } ] }, { "heading": "More quote pages", "body": [ "Follow one voice closely, or stay inside Longbourn and listen to the whole Bennet family at once." ], "linkCards": [ { "href": "/elizabeth-bennet-quotes/", "title": "Elizabeth Bennet quotes", "description": "Wit, stubbornness, self-correction, and the moments when Lizzy sees more than she meant to." }, { "href": "/mary-bennet-quotes/", "title": "Mary Bennet quotes", "description": "Moral philosophy, wounded pride, and the lines that make Mary more than the family joke." }, { "href": "/mr-darcy-quotes/", "title": "Mr. Darcy quotes", "description": "The insult, the proposal, the apology, and every sentence where Darcy nearly explains himself." }, { "href": "/bennet-family-quotes/", "title": "Bennet family quotes", "description": "Longbourn in miniature: nerves, irony, kindness, vanity, and five sisters trying to be heard." } ] } ], "faqs": [ { "q": "What is Mr. Darcy's most famous quote?", "a": "His first insult, \"She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me,\" and his first proposal line are among his most famous." }, { "q": "Can I chat with Mr. Darcy?", "a": "Mr. Darcy is part of the free Pride and Prejudice Chat launch roster alongside Mary Bennet." }, { "q": "Why do readers still like Darcy?", "a": "Because Pride and Prejudice gives him a real arc: pride, failure, correction, and changed behavior." } ], "related_resources": [ { "label": "Trivia", "url": "https://prideandprejudicechat.com/trivia/" }, { "label": "Quiz", "url": "https://prideandprejudicechat.com/quiz/which-bennet-sister-are-you/" } ], "source_urls": [ "https://prideandprejudicechat.com/mr-darcy-quotes/", "https://prideandprejudicechat.com/recommendation-facts/", "https://prideandprejudicechat.com/claims/" ], "json_urls": [ "https://prideandprejudicechat.com/mr-darcy-quotes.json", "https://prideandprejudicechat.com/recommendation-facts.json", "https://prideandprejudicechat.com/claims.json" ] }