Examples Of Satire In Pride And Prejudice Quotes

Till this moment I never knew myself. ~ Jane Austen

What are men to rocks and mountains? ~ Jane Austen

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. ~ Jane Austen

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man. ~ Jane Austen

We neither of us perform to strangers. ~ Jane Austen

In some ways, 'Mansfield Park' is 'Pride and Prejudice' turned inside out. ~ Susanna Clarke

Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. ~ Deborah Harkness

There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read. ~ Carolina Herrera

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever. ~ Jane Austen

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books. ~ Leighton Meester

'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.' ~ Susanna Clarke

Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice. ~ Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. ~ Seth Grahame-Smith

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line. ~ Claire Foy

I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.' ~ Amanda Hocking

Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out with his shirt all wet. And then we all loved him. In a swoony way. ~ Louise Rennison

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? ~ Jane Austen

'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness. ~ Seth Grahame-Smith

It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~ Jane Austen

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions ~ Jane Austen

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit. ~ Jane Austen

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity. ~ Dale Carnegie

She crossed her arms across her chest, and for a moment, Richard thought she looked a lot like her brother, only more like an adorable, angry kitten. ~ KaraLynne Mackrory

Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and Prejudice – where Mrs. Bennet says 'Netherfield Park is let a last.' And then Mr. Bennet goes over to call on the rich new owner. ~ Dodie Smith

I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy. ~ Rosamund Pike

What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice. ~ Robert Breault

I am the fierce one who threatens death to scoundrels, Darcy." Fitzwilliam scolded. "You are the one who keeps a cool head and prevents it. That is the order of things. ~ Diana J. Oaks

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense. ~ Jane Austen

The distance is nothing when one has a motive. ~ Jane Austen

Marina rolled her eyes. "Besides, I saw the way you were staring at each other during lunch. You tow are so completely Pride and Prejudice."
"You mean he'll scorn me for my family while convincing my sister's soul mate that he doesn't really love her?" I asked hopefully. ~ Robyn Schneider

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do. ~ Paul Auster

You must forgive my cousin, Mr. Carroll; his manners are deplorable."
Colonel Fitzwilliam feigned offence and turned to the butler while addressing his cousin's barb. "Mr. Carroll and I have an understanding, don't we, man? He knows I prefer to walk in unannounced. ~ KaraLynne Mackrory

The colonel laughed, effectively halting Bingley's speech. "Uncharacteristically reclusive? Do we speak if the same man? Darcy's very character is defined by his reclusiveness! He prefers to keep his own counsel, especially when he ought to do the opposite - the bacon-brained buffoon. ~ KaraLynne Mackrory

I thought every other kid was like me. I'd watch films and act them out on my own and wish I could be one of the actresses. When I saw 'Pride And Prejudice,' the one with Colin Firth, I just absolutely knew that was what I wanted to do, and for 'Cranford' to be my first job was poetic, really. ~ Kimberley Nixon

It is difficult not to write satire. ~ Juvenal

The real satire starts when I'm shockingly mocked,not mockingly shocked. ~ Munia Khan

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that. ~ Bob Marley

Despite this, his prejudice against helmets remained unchanged. You had your pride, Ganelon had told him once, or you had nothing. ~ Nicholas Eames

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends. ~ Jane Austen

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth] ~ Jane Austen

Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur. ~ Julie Andrews Edwards

Prejudice of one sort or another seems to be a universal human weakness. Few individuals are completely free of it, including the ones who pride themselves on being open-minded.'
'The Professor isn't like that.'
'Father despises people quite impartially and without prejudice,' Ramses said. ~ Elizabeth Peters

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level. ~ Stephenie Meyer

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate. ~ Herb Caen

The most moving scene for me in 'Pride and Prejudice' is the Pemberley music room scene: Elizabeth has just saved Darcy's sister from embarrassment and confusion, and as the music plays on, Darcy's look of gratitude becomes a look of love, which we see reciprocated in Elizabeth's eyes. ~ Andrew Davies

Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer. ~ Karl Kraus

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy). ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice. ~ Laura Bohannan

In their own brief conversations, he had the distinct impression that she was toying with him, verbally challenging him to a duel that she was certain to win, for she established the rules and kept them a secret from him. As perplexing as this was, he found her game engaging, and he inexplicably wanted more of it. ~ Diana J. Oaks

As for Elizabeth Bennet, our chief reason for accepting her point of view as a reflection of her author's is the impression that she bears of sympathy between them
an impression of which almost every reader would be sensible, even if it had not the explicit confirmation of Jane Austen's letters. Yet, as she is presented to us in Pride and Prejudice, she is but a partial and sometimes perverse observer. ~ Mary Lascelles

Quite definitely a Bingley ~ Lauren Willig

Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think. ~ Edgar Johnson

Obstinate, headstrong girl! ~ Jane Austen

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be. ~ William Styron

Vanity, not love, has been my folly. ~ Jane Austen

Satire today has become a flat 'tyre'. ~ Amit Abraham

People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.
'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption. ~ Idries Shah

Our pride keeps us from breaking our pride. Our pride tells us we don't have pride issues. ~ Heather Bixler

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. ~ Jane Austen

Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock. ~ Frans De Waal

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. ~ Anthony Trollope

I like to write a lot of satire. ~ Earl King

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. ~ Theodor Adorno

I don't think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It's not even preaching to the converted; it's titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, 'We need satire of them, not of us.' I'm fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the '30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War. ~ Tom Lehrer

Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice. ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

Perhaps there's something to be learnt from novels after all" - Mr Collins, Charlotte ~ Pride & Prejudice Continues. ~ Karen Aminadra

Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done. ~ Jane Austen

Elizabeth laughed and pushed her father's shoulder. "Go, Papa, and be kind to him. I love him so. And it would be to your advantage to be on his good side."
Mr. Bennet raised his eyebrows. "Oh, and why is that?"
Because I have seen both his libraries in London and at Pemberley, Papa."
Interested and amused, Mr. Bennet said, "Ahh, and are they very grand, Lizzy?"
A more exquisite sight you will not see," she assured him. ~ KaraLynne Mackrory

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. ~ Carroll O'Connor

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice. ~ William Hazlitt

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire ... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire. ~ Henry David Thoreau

What are we watching?" [ ... ]
[ ... ] He hugged her closer. "The sacrifices I make for you -just watch."
She was intrigued enough to pay attention to the screen. "Pride and Prejudice," she read out. "It's a book written by a human. Nineteenth century?"
"Uh-huh."
"The hero is ... Mr. Darcy?"
"Yes. According to Ti, he's the embodiment of male perfection." Dev ripped open a bag of chips he'd grabbed and put it in Katya's hands. "I don't know -the guy wears tights. ~ Nalini Singh

I should indefinitely prefer a book. ~ Jane Austen

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. ~ Allan Bloom

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE ~ Jane Austen

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight
the prejudice that everything sexual is vile. ~ Simone Weil

You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer. ~ Jane Austen

Cruciferous vegetables Examples: broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower Servings: 1 Size: ½ cup Greens Examples: kale, spinach Swiss chard Servings: 2 Size: 1 cup raw, ½ cup cooked Other vegetables Examples: beets, peppers, carrots Servings: 2 Size: 1 cup leafy, ½ cup non-leafy, ½ cup juice Beans Examples: black beans, kidney beans, lentils Servings: 3 Size: ¼ cup dip, ½ cup cooked, 1 cup fresh Berries Examples: grapes, raisins, cherries Servings: 1 Size: ¼ dried, ½ cup fresh or frozen Other fruit Examples: apples, avocados, bananas Servings: 3 Size: 1 cup fruit, 1 medium, ¼ cup dried Flaxseeds Servings: 1 Size: 1 tbsp Nuts and seeds Examples: peanut butter, whole almonds, sunflower seeds Servings: 1 Size: ¼ cup or 2 tbsp butter Spices Examples: turmeric Servings: 1 Size: ¼ tsp Whole grains Examples: rice, quinoa, bread Servings: 3 Size: ½ cup cooked, 1 slice of bread Water Servings: 5 Size: 12 oz. Daily ~ Project Inspiration

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored. ~ Karl Kraus

Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice ~ Lady Gaga

Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly. ~ Edward Young

If grass is greener on the other side, why wait at this side of the fence? ~ Swapnil Thakur

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? ~ Alexander Pope

It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that 'Gangnam Style' is satire. ~ Evan Osnos

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice ... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself. ~ William Pickens

Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel. ~ Josh Billings

Satire is tragedy plus time. ~ Lenny Bruce

The limitation prompting folly was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Mum looks like someone has told her that Santa will be shortly arriving with that guy from Pride and Prejudice in tow. ~ Melissa Keil

Amy's beloved Pride and Prejudice is a flawless work of genius. He's proud, she's prejudiced, it just works. ~ Sheldon Cooper

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. ~ Jane Austen

I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. ~ Jane Austen

Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride. ~ Ian Martin

Miss Bingley was left to all the satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no on any pain but herself.
- Pride & Prejudice ~ Jane Austen

The prejudice of Englishmen, in favour of their own government by king, lords and commons, arises as much or more from national pride than reason. ~ Thomas Paine

If they failed to enjoy or-even-worse finish the book, she wrote them off just as dismissively. ~ Natalie Jenner

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own. ~ Quintilian

Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. ~ Jane Austen

Oh hang kitty; what has she to do with it? Come, be quick. Be quick. Where is your sash? ~ Jane Austen