Darcy Quotes:

I will only add, God bless you.

- Jane Austen

topic: Add, God Bless You, Darcy

Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Vampire, Today, Darcy

I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.

- Rumer Godden

topic: Husband, Darcy

I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.549, Ageless Reads

topic: Laughing, World, Darcy

The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.41

topic: Imperfection, Attention, Darcy, Quickness

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen, Michelle Pillow (2010). “Pride and Prejudice: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.66, Adams Media

topic: Library, Neglect, Darcy

I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

- Jane Austen

topic: Strong, Healthy, May, Stout, Sonnet

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

- Jane Austen

source: "Fictional character: Mr Darcy". "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 16, 1813.

topic: Pride, Taught, Prejudice, Darcy

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2005). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.157, Prestwick House Inc

topic: People, Done, Tone, Darcy

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.9

topic: Pride, Men, Giving, Slighted, Pride And Prejudice Book

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.175, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

topic: Men, Understanding, Mind, Darcy

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.50

topic: Real, Pride, Vanity, Vanity And Pride, Darcy

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)

- Jane Austen

topic: Love, Pride, Way, Pride And Prejudice Book, Mrs Bennet

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

- Jane Austen

topic: Moving, Believe, Pride, Darcy

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

- Jane Austen

topic: Love, Romantic, Funny Relationship, Marriage Proposal, Admire You

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

- Jane Austen

topic: Pride, Silence, Feelings, Pride And Prejudice Pride, Darcy

You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

- Jane Austen

source: "Fictional character: Elizabeth Bennet". "Pride & Prejudice", www.imdb.com. 2005.

topic: Prejudice, May, Call Me, Pride And Prejudice Pride, Darcy

Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.62

topic: Months, Firsts, Prejudice, Darcy

I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2015). “Annotated Pride and Prejudice with English Grammar Exercises: by Jane Austen (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.329, Powell Publications, LLC

topic: Mother, Believe, Night, Darcy

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.211, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

topic: Pride, Men, Two, Mismanagement, Darcy

My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2015). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion and More”, p.728, Xist Publishing

topic: Believe, Mean, Pride, Reproof, Darcy

It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.80

topic: Couple, Numbers, Rooms, Darcy

She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

- Jane Austen

topic: Jealous, Chance, Should, Happy With Him, Darcy

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

- Jane Austen

topic: Saying Goodbye, Desire, Lasts, Meeting Again, Darcy

'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.' Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'

- Jane Austen

source: "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 31, 1813.

topic: Moving, Believe, Expression, Darcy

Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.

- Sophie Kinsella

topic: Giving Up, Use, Argument, Darcy

Goodbye Darcy, goodbye Jean, goodbye stone cottage, scratchy towels, fields of wildflowers; good bye gorgeous Peak District ... OK English People, for your own good, get off the roads, here we come!

- Susan Branch

topic: Goodbye, People, Wildflowers, Darcy

Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out with his shirt all wet. And then we all loved him. In a swoony way.

- Louise Rennison

topic: Pride, Lakes, Firsts, Darcy, Huffy

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë (2017). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abby, Persuasion, The Watsons, Sanditon, Lady Susan, Love and Freindship, The History of England, Lesley Castle”, p.261, e-artnow

topic: Children, Mistake, Compassion, No Compassion, Mrs Bennet

What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me for never telling her about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Why hadn't she known there were better love stories around? Stories not riddled with ill-adjusted men, anguish, death and graveyards!

- Mary Ann Shaffer

topic: Pride, Men, Stories, Darcy

I need some beef and broccoli before I face any more Mr. Darcy. It's a truth universally acknowledged that if you watch too much television on am empty stomach, your head falls off." "If your head fall off, " Tessa said, "the hairdressing industry would go into an economic meltdown

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.431, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fall, Watches, Beef, Meltdowns, Empty Stomach

And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because she expects to win. I do not expect what I want, so I dont. And I dont even try.

- Emily Giffin

source: Emily Giffin (2015). “Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue”, p.269, St. Martin's Griffin

topic: Believe, Fall, Winning, Darcy

I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.

- Emily Giffin

topic: Thinking, Issues, Feelings, Female Friendship, Darcy

I like you very much. Just as you are." Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones

- Helen Fielding

source: "Bridget Jones's Diary". www.imdb.com. 2001.

topic: I Like You, Bridget Jones, Mark, Very Romantic, Romantic Movie Love

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

- Dan Savage

topic: Dream, Husband, Divorce, Darcy

Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger of falling in love, and were it not for his considerable skill in the deadly arts, that he should be in danger of being bested by hers--for never had he seen a lady more gifted in the ways of vanquishing the undead.

- Seth Grahame-Smith

source: Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.49, Quirk Books

topic: Art, Falling In Love, Skills, Affront, Undead

Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies." Mr. Darcy: "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance.

- Jane Austen

topic: People, Dancing, Savages, Darcy

The most moving scene for me in 'Pride and Prejudice' is the Pemberley music room scene: Elizabeth has just saved Darcy's sister from embarrassment and confusion, and as the music plays on, Darcy's look of gratitude becomes a look of love, which we see reciprocated in Elizabeth's eyes.

- Andrew Davies

topic: Gratitude, Moving, Eye, Darcy

The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into a Guy Ritchie movie and the other five hundred will be Mr. Darcy. So we had to find cool, working class kids with no profile who could be John Travolta and James Dean and people like that.

- Ricky Gervais

topic: Kids, Class, People, Darcy

I like strong/vulnerable interesting women, and then sometimes I like painting beautiful men, like Kurt Cobain, or Mr Darcy.

- Stella Vine

source: "Stella Vine's The Waltz at Museum of New Art". Detroit Museum of New Art, September 15, 2006.

topic: Beautiful, Strong, Men, Darcy

One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!

- Nora Ephron

topic: Fighting, Want, Lasts, Darcy

The format of the book was the idea of my wonderful editor, Stephen Segal. Stephen and I had worked together before, on projects for the Interstitial Arts Foundation, and when he got the idea for an accordion-style book, he called and asked if I could write the story for it. I told him that I would love to try! And I knew it had to be a love story, because that's the sort of story you really want to hear from both perspectives. I mean, imagine if Pride and Prejudice were told from Darcy's perspective as well as Elizabeth's. It would be quite a different story!

- Theodora Goss

source: Source: www.sfsignal.com

topic: Art, Book, Mean, Accordions, Darcy

On a radio drama I'd like to feel that I had just as much chance of playing Mr Darcy as anyone else because I can sound like him, yet many radio producers find it very difficult to extend their imaginations to employing anyone who's non white.

- Sanjeev Bhaskar

topic: Drama, White, Imagination, Darcy

There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the middle of the cold Atlantic Ocean. That would've seduced me as a teen reader. Second, It is full of beautiful but killer horses being trained for a dangerous race. Actually, that would've seduced me as a teen reader as well. At third it involves a very repressed love story with a very Mr. Darcy-like love interest.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Source: www.seventeen.com

topic: Beautiful, Horse, Ocean, Scorpios, Atlantic Ocean

I find that at almost every press junket I get that comment, "this character's different from what you generally play..." And that's OK! But I think "generally play" stems back to Mr Darcy. I'm fine with it but I tend to find that if it's a departure, which in other people's words it always is, it's always a departure from that.

- Colin Firth

source: "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

topic: Character, Thinking, Play, Darcy

I didn't really get into underground comics, though I've liked some of what I've seen. Dame Darcy was very impressive to meet, really talented. In general, I've always been more interested in searching out music, so I think I miss out on a lot of underground art.

- Neil Farber

topic: Art, Thinking, Missing, Very Impressive, Darcy

I've always been intrigued with the male characters in novels like 'Pride and Prejudice' such as Mr. Darcy, and this poem is part of a series of poems that explore desire and obsessions. The poems have been sitting in a drawer for a few years, so I decided to dust them off and work on them again since I have not written a new poem in more than three years. I'm not sure anything will become of the series, but at least it gives me something to work on in a period where I feel very uncreative.

- Victoria Chang

topic: Character, Pride, Dust, Darcy

As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to the moment. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are tantalizing early prototypes for a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy ideal of lovers as brainy, passionate sparring partners. That the world teems with fantasies of Mr. Darcy and his ilk there is no doubt. How many of his type are to be found outside the pages of a novel, however, is another matter.

- Stephen Holden

topic: Pride, Games, Two, Sparring Partner, Tracy

I admit that I do not recall the speeches of Comrades [Earl] Browder and [Samuel] Darcy. I do not even recall of what they spoke. It is possible that they said something of this nature. But it was not the Soviet people who created the American Communist Party. It was created by Americans.

- Joseph Stalin

topic: Communist Party, Darcy

All women love Colin Firth: Mr. Darcy, Mark Darcy, George VI—at this point he could play the Craigslist Killer and people would be like, 'Oh my God, the Craigslist Killer has the most boyish smile!

- Mindy Kaling

topic: Play, People, Would Be, Boyish, Craigslist