Prejudice

Quote

Character

Chapter

“I don’t like shoppy people.”

Margaret

2

“What in the world do manufacturers want with the classics, or literature, or the accomplishments of a gentleman?”

Margaret

4

“[There was] a detestation for all she had ever heard of the North of England, the manufacturers, the people, the wild and bleak country”

Margaret

4

“Fancy living in the middle of factories, and factory people!”

Mrs Hale

5

“She had a repugnance to the idea of a manufacturing town”

Narrator

7

“I would rather be a man toiling, suffering... here, than lead a dull prosperous life in the... more aristocratic society down in the South, with their slow days of careless ease”

Thornton

10

“The vulgarity of shop people”

Margaret

11

“If my son’s work people strike, I will only say they are a pack of ungrateful hounds”

Mrs Thornton

15

“‘Margaret!’ said Mrs Hale, rather querulously, ‘you won’t like anything Mr Thornton does. I never saw anybody so prejudiced.’”

Mrs Hale

27

“But Margaret, don’t get to use these horrid Milton words”

Mrs Hale

29

“I might as well put a fire-brand into the midst of the cotton waste”

Mr Thornton

38

“Mrs Shaw took as vehement a dislike as it was possible for one of her gentle nature to do, against Milton”

Narrator

43