7 Quotes About Pride And Prejudice Adaptation

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen that tells the story of Elizabeth Bennett. While it is often called one of Austen's best, it is also one of her most controversial. It centers on the battle between Elizabeth and her proud and prejudiced family, who call for Mr. Darcy to be disinherited after he stands to lose all his money in an accident Read more

The novel also explores other themes such as the fears people have of falling in love, the necessity of acceptance, and the ways characters can change throughout their lives.

He can’t ground her if he’s already killed her, ”...
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He can’t ground her if he’s already killed her, ” I pointed out when Juliana quoted this to me. “Well, he can, but it wouldn’t have the same impact. Claire LaZebnik
Now, my sister has been called a lot of things:sweet,...
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Now, my sister has been called a lot of things:sweet, kind, a living Disney princess, but none of those things imply that she would ever date someone just for his money. Bernie Su
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He had been the recipient, he now gratefully acknowledged, of a rare and precious gift. In demanding the hand of a woman he neither understood nor was capable of knowing, he had instead received from her the chance to see himself and the opportunity to become a better man. And he had changed. He knew he had. He knew that he was not that man stalking angrily back to his chambers in Rosings Hall. What had happened to him in those intervening months? He was not sure; he could offer no complete explanation, but the man who had opened Rosings's doors, already prepared to write an angry letter, was a stranger, a man who had been walking through his entire life asleep. But now, he had awoken. . Pamela Aidan
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." ~ Jane Austin. Arguably one of the best opening lines in literary history (I said ARGUABLY doesn't mean I want to argue). However, to make it a modern retelling it would have to read: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man or women in possession of a good fortune, just treading water or so broke it aint no joke, must be in want of a life partner. Brandy Potter
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I'm going to be fit and slim and beautiful. I'm going on a diet as of today."" Why? You've always said that looks don't matter and women only diet for men and life is obsessed with the superificial."" Yes, I know, but then I thought, hey wouldn't it be fun to be sexy? Melissa Nathan
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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