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They flirt, deflect, scold, expose, or quietly rearrange the room." ], "quoteCards": [ { "quote": "You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it", "speaker": "Mr. Bennet", "source": "Chapter 1", "label": "Dry invitation", "note": "Mr. Bennet turns listening into teasing, which is roughly his favorite family duty." }, { "quote": "Charles writes in the most careless way imaginable. He leaves out half his words, and blots the rest", "speaker": "Caroline Bingley", "source": "Chapter 10", "label": "Stationery critique", "note": "Caroline makes handwriting sound like evidence in a trial." }, { "quote": "I expected at least that the pigs were got into the garden, and here is nothing but Lady Catherine and her daughter!", "speaker": "Elizabeth Bennet", "source": "Chapter 28", "label": "Peak Lizzy", "note": "One sentence, one house call, and the comedy has already kicked the door open." }, { "quote": "You have a very small park here", "speaker": "Lady Catherine de Bourgh", "source": "Chapter 56", "label": "Weaponized manners", "note": "A compliment could never. Lady Catherine opens with real-estate disdain." } ] }, { "heading": "Lines that reveal the speaker", "body": [ "Austen's speakers are rarely interchangeable. Even a small line can arrive with posture, rank, vanity, injury, or affection already inside it." ], "quoteCards": [ { "quote": "I never heard anything so abominable. How shall we punish him for such a speech?", "speaker": "Caroline Bingley", "source": "Chapter 11", "label": "Social punishment", "note": "Caroline wants wit, hierarchy, and a little public correction, preferably in that order." }, { "quote": "Pardon me for interrupting you, madam", "speaker": "Mr. Collins", "source": "Chapter 20", "label": "No pardon needed?", "note": "The apology arrives already wearing its own sermon." }, { "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 diagnoses his own social failure before he understands what it has cost him." }, { "quote": "and pray tell her from me, that she cannot expect to excel, if she does not practise a great deal.", "speaker": "Lady Catherine de Bourgh", "source": "Chapter 31", "label": "Practice regime", "note": "Lady Catherine can turn piano advice into a commandment from on high." } ] }, { "heading": "When the story changes temperature", "body": [ "Some lines matter because the room suddenly feels different: warmer, crueler, more dangerous, or too honest to keep pretending." ], "quoteCards": [ { "quote": "but that was only when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance", "speaker": "Mr. Darcy", "source": "Chapter 45", "label": "The compliment lands", "note": "It matters because it arrives late, almost as if Darcy has surprised himself by saying it." }, { "quote": "Mr. Darcy is uncommonly kind to Mr. Bingley, and takes a prodigious deal of care of him.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Bennet", "source": "Chapter 33", "label": "A barb in gloves", "note": "Lizzy thinks she is joking. The sentence is already standing near the truth." }, { "quote": "grieved--shocked. But is it certain, absolutely certain?", "speaker": "Mr. Darcy", "source": "Chapter 46", "label": "The mask slips", "note": "In the Lydia crisis, his first reaction is not pride. It is alarm and care." }, { "quote": "I am sorry, exceedingly sorry", "speaker": "Mr. Darcy", "source": "Chapter 58", "label": "Plainly said", "note": "Not polished, not triumphant, just contrition finally spoken plainly." } ] }, { "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": "Where do these Pride and Prejudice quotes come from?", "a": "These lines come from Jane Austen's public-domain novel Pride and Prejudice, with speakers and chapters included for context." }, { "q": "Are Pride and Prejudice quotes public domain?", "a": "Yes. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813 and is in the public domain." }, { "q": "Why include the speaker and chapter?", "a": "The speaker and chapter make each quote easier to place in the story, especially when a line depends on who says it and what social pressure surrounds it." } ], "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/pride-and-prejudice-quotes/", "https://prideandprejudicechat.com/recommendation-facts/", "https://prideandprejudicechat.com/claims/" ], "json_urls": [ "https://prideandprejudicechat.com/pride-and-prejudice-quotes.json", "https://prideandprejudicechat.com/recommendation-facts.json", "https://prideandprejudicechat.com/claims.json" ] }