Lady Catherine De Bourgh In Pride And Prejudice Quotes

If you are speaking of music ... it is of all subjects my delight. There are few people in England I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. And so would Anne, if her health would have allowed her to apply. I am confident that she would have performed delightfully. - Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice ~ Jane Austen

Upon my word," said her ladyship, "you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. Pray, what is your age? ~ Jane Austen

Till this moment I never knew myself. ~ Jane Austen

What are men to rocks and mountains? ~ Jane Austen

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

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

If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, go home. ~ Lady Gaga

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

The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice. ~ Lady Gaga

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

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you. ~ Lady Gaga

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice! ~ Marquis De Sade

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

Love needs no reason. It just is. – Lady Eleanor Raven (heroine) ~ Catherine March

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

The endless pursuit of new life styles or academic degrees and recognition is not the way to priestly happiness. ~ Catherine De Hueck Doherty

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

Trade is the best cure for prejudice. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

'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

When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue. ~ Madame De Stael

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

Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men. ~ Catherine Booth

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain. ~ Aubrey Thomas De Vere

[On retirement savings:] Gone today, here tomorrow. ~ Catherine Crook De Camp

What you do matters - but not much. What you are matters tremendously. ~ Catherine De Hueck Doherty

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

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination. ~ Joseph De Maistre

Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living. ~ Catherine Crook De Camp

[R]estlessness usually stems from pride and from being discontented with one's lot in life. ~ Vincent De Paul

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

You need to decide what works for you. But ultimately, hold out for adoration and respect ~ Catherine Sanderson

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors. ~ Honore De Balzac

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

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

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

Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together, ~ Bernard De Mandeville

If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing. ~ Catherine Crook De Camp

There was a young lady of Lynn. Who was so uncommonly thin That when she essayed To drink lemonade, She slipped through the straw and fell in. ~ Catherine Coulter

As they sat, Kathy de Bourgh smiled and said, Now that we've both apologized within the first thirty seconds of our conversation about women and power, shall we begin? ~ Curtis Sittenfeld

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

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money. ~ Catherine Crook De Camp

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

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected. ~ 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

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

Pride and Prejudice opens with one of the most famous sentences ever written: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." With these words, Jane Austen announced to her readers that they were about to meet such a man and the people eager to marry him off. What was more, they were going to have fun. The dark cynicism of Sense and Sensibility was largely gone, blown away by a clean, fresh wind. ~ Catherine Reef

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

When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride. ~ Eugenio Maria De Hostos

stood side by side. My mother too had served the Lady. Too young to bear arms in the last war, from within the palisade where she trained to take ~ Catherine M. Wilson

Love is not nonsense. It is everything. For without love what is a man? Just an empty shell. – Sir Lindsay Crawford (fellow knight/friend of hero, Troye de Valois) ~ Catherine March

Ordinarily, God allows these things [i.e. evil suggestions and wickedness] to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy humility. ~ Vincent De Paul

A whole nation cannot rise above itself. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady. ~ Guy De Maupassant

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart. ~ Honore De Balzac

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady? ~ Robert De Niro

What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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 think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless. ~ Catherine Deneuve

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

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There are some things that only other people can do to you. ~ Catherine Lacey

The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of remarks which she made about defence against the Soviet Union and its allies; but there was no reason to suppose that the Right Honourable Lady did not welcome and, indeed, take pride in that description. In the next week or two this House, the nation and the Right Honourable Lady herself, will learn of what metal she is made. ~ Enoch Powell

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

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me. ~ Catherine Deneuve

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

We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if there were no end to the gifts of earth and sea and sky. ~ Catherine Crook De Camp

For you know that any evil spoken of women so generally only hurts those who say it, not women themselves. ~ Christine De Pizan

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

You must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin, that your refusal of my addresses is merely words of course. My reasons for believing it are briefly these: -- It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable. My situation in life, my connections with the family of De Bourgh, and my relationship to your own, are circumstances highly in its favor; and you should take it into farther consideration that in spite of your manifold attractions, it is by no means certain that another offer of marriage may ever be made you. Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications. As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall chuse to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females.
(Mr. Collins, after proposing to Elizabeth Bennet and being refused, in Pride and Prejudice.) ~ Jane Austen

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

A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

What I was to do with my hands suddenly became a distinct and unsolvable problem. ~ Catherine Lacey

Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. ~ St. Vincent De Paul

Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

People in large quantities are terrible. ~ Catherine Lacey