English Literature-Quotes by Maria Tenizi

2025-10-24 05:35:02 UTC

“It must make you better satisfied that your other four are single.”

Mrs Bennet’s comments in Darcy

2025-10-24 05:36:15 UTC

Mrs. Bennet could not be prevailed on to admire him, though her husband assured her that he was very fine young man.

2025-10-24 05:36:23 UTC

“He simpers, and smirks, and makes love to us all. I am prodigiously proud of him. I defy even Sir William Lucas himself, to produce a more valuable son-in-law”

2025-10-24 05:36:32 UTC

“But you know married women have never much time for writing. My sister may write to me. They will have nothing else to do.”

Irony Of Marriage

2025-10-24 05:37:19 UTC

“Mrs. Bennet was in a perfect rapture of delight.”

2025-10-24 05:37:27 UTC

This is the consequence, you see, Madam, of marrying a daughter, said Elizabeth. It must make you better satisfied that your other four are single - ironic tone, parallels with her father’s behaviour and does not tell her mother directly the truth- only mocks her

Mrs. Bennet

2025-10-24 05:37:35 UTC

Mrs. Bennet is an excellent embodiment of irony as she exhibits it in the way that she reacts when her daughter Lydia is off to leave “the loss of her daughter made Mrs. Bennet very dull for several days” The fact that this has affected her for only a few days shows her lack of parental hood, giving us a clear statement of irony by Austen

2025-10-24 05:37:57 UTC

“Mr. Darcy looked just as he had been used to look in Hertfordshire paid not the smallest attention to Elizabeth, and appeared as indifferent as ever.”

Austen’s description of the sisters’ color changes due to love and male attention

2025-10-24 05:38:51 UTC

Elizabeth- “an additional glow, and a smile of delight, added lustre to her eyes, as she thought for that space of time, that his affection and wishes must still be unshaken.”

Jane- “Jane looked a little paler than usual, but more sedate than Elizabeth had expected.” “her color increased”

2025-10-24 05:38:58 UTC

“I knew how it would be! I always said it must be so, at last. I was sure you could not be so beautiful for nothing!”

2025-10-24 05:39:17 UTC

“You force me into visiting him last year, and promised if i went to see him he should marry one of my daughters. But it ended in nothing and i will not be sent on a fool’s errand again”

2025-10-24 05:39:43 UTC

Elizabeth being in “such misery of shame”

Mr. Bennet

2025-10-24 05:39:49 UTC

His parental position as a father had been neglected from the start pf the book, but just as Mrs. Bennet mentions Mr. Bingley again, he becomes assertive, contradicting his previous actions “no, no. You forced me into visiting him last year and promised if i went to see him, he should marry one of my daughters”

2025-10-24 05:40:38 UTC

“It is a delightful thing, to be sure, to have a daughter well married”

2025-10-24 05:43:43 UTC

The subject which had been so warmly canvassed between their parents, about a twelve month ago, was now brought forward again - social growth, overcomes social expectations