Gender

Quote

Character

Chapter

“A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved.”

Caroline Bingley

8

“I do think it is the hardest thing in the world, that your estate should be entailed away from your own children.”

Mrs Bennet

13

“Oh! Mr. Bennet, you are wanted immediately; we are all in an uproar. You must come and make Lizzy marry Mr. Collins, for she vows she will not have him.”

Mrs Bennet

20

“Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this useful lesson: that loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.”

Mary

47

“The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this... this false step in one daughter will be injurious to the fortunes of all the others; for who, as Lady Catherine herself condescendingly says, will connect themselves with such a family?”

Mr Collins

48

“Poor Lydia’s situation must, at best, be bad enough; but that it was no worse, she had need to be thankful.”

Narrator

49