Key quotations — Pride and Prejudice — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from Pride and Prejudice, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Including 'It is a truth universally acknowledged', 'She is tolerable: but not handsome enough to tempt me', 'I am not romantic, you know', 'In vain have I struggled', 'the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry', 'Till this moment I never knew myself', 'Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?', 'By you, I was properly humbled' and 'I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to anyone less worthy'.
Eduqas's essay on this novel marks context as much as response and analysis: weave context into the argument, and treat the printed extract as a starting point, ranging across the beginning, middle and end of the novel.
