Pride and Prejudice Characters

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Has "fine eyes", and a much admire wit.

"Ardently admire[s] and love[s]" the main character, despite her intial disfavour.

"Smiles too much", or so her detractors claim.

Is a "thoughtless, thoughtless" girl, especially when choosing a husband.

Believes "loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable - that one false step involves her in endless ruin". Nonetheless remains single.

"So odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice..."

"A woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper."

"Would not be so fastidious" as his best friend, "for a kingdom!" Consequently throws lots of parties.

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Persuades the main character to "take a turn about the room" with her.

He "suffer[s] from want of money." Believes "younger sons cannot marry where they like"

She is all "affability and condescension" but is almost exclusively condescending.

Believes "happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance…It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life"

Sometimes amuses himself with "suggesting and arranging such little elegant compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions"

A man "blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends— [but] whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain."

Relations of the main character "for whom there [is] no need to blush"

An "accomplished girl" who "plays and sings all day long".