Anna Karenina - A Conversation About Desires and Contentment
Oblonsky: [Agafia comes in with the roast fowl.]
Ah— potage aux choux a la Russe! Agafia!— if you opened up in Moscow, l'Angleterre would go out of business. Do you want news of Moscow?
Levin:
Of Babylon? No.
Oblonsky:
You're right, what do you care? You love the country— you've got it. You love agriculturing, and, Lord knows, you've got it. You love shooting— you’ve got it. You've got everything you want!
Levin:
All right, go on, then. Have you stopped stealing bread rolls?
Oblonsky:
Ballet girl, oriental type. How can I help it?
Levin:
So, nothing new to tell me. How is— how are the Shcherbatskys?
Oblonsky:
You mean Kitty.
Levin:
I... Is she engaged now?
Oblonsky:
No. Vronsky went back to St. Petersburg.
Oblonsky:
Kitty will be at Ergoshovo visiting Dolly in the summer. You could...
Levin:
Oh yes, as if I had time in the summer! And I've got extra land this year at Kashin for the haymaking.
Oblonsky:
Kashin? That’s on the Ergoshovo road, isn't it? Won't you call when Kitty is there?
Levin:
Especially not then. I humiliated myself once.
Oblonsky:
Damn you, Kostya, you love Kitty and you can't forgive her because, first, you funked it, then you bungled it, then you ran away from an eighteen-year-old girl who was made a fool of by a uniform. It's Kitty I'm sorry for— not you!
Levin:
Her heart told her no. Did you come to shoot snipe or criticize me?
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Pride & Prejudice - A Dislike for Endearments in Conversation
Mr. Darcy:
How are you this evening, my dear?
Elizabeth Bennet:
Very well. Only I wish you would not call me "my dear".
Mr. Darcy:
Why?
Elizabeth Bennet:
Because it's what my father always called my mother when he's cross about something.
Mr. Darcy:
What endearments am I allowed?
Elizabeth Bennet:
Well let me think..."Lizzy" for everyday, "My Pearl" for Sundays, and..."Goddess Divine", but only on very special occasions.
Mr. Darcy: [Chuckles]
And...what should I call you when I'm cross? "Mrs. Darcy"?
Elizabeth Bennet: [Smiling]
No! No. You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, perfectly, and incandescently happy.
Mr. Darcy: [chuckles; kisses her forehead]
How are you this evening... Mrs. Darcy?
Mr. Darcy: [kisses her left cheek]
Mrs. Darcy
Mr. Darcy: [kisses her nose]
Mrs. Darcy
Mr. Darcy: [kisses her right cheek]
Mrs. Darcy
Mr. Darcy: [they kiss]
Mrs. Darcy
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Pride & Prejudice - A Gift of Music and Affection
Elizabeth Bennet:
And what a beautiful pianoforte!
Georgiana Darcy:
My brother gave it to me. He shouldn't have--
Mr. Darcy:
Yes, I should've.
Georgiana Darcy:
Oh, very well, then.
Mr. Darcy:
Easily persuaded, is she not?
Elizabeth Bennet:
Your unfortunate brother once had to put up with my playing for a whole evening.
Georgiana Darcy: [looking astonished]
But he says you play so well!
Elizabeth Bennet:
Then he has perjured himself most profoundly.
Mr. Darcy:
No, I said "played quite well.
Elizabeth Bennet:
Oh, "quite well" is not "very well." I'm satisfied.
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Pride & Prejudice - Consequences of Betrayal in Love
Mr. Darcy:
No, believe me, I didn't mean--
Elizabeth Bennet:
If I was uncivil, then that is some excuse. But I have other reasons, you know I have.
Mr. Darcy:
What reasons?
Elizabeth Bennet:
Do you think anything might tempt me to accept the man who has ruined, perhaps forever, the happiness of a most beloved sister? Do you deny that you separated a young couple who loved each other, exposing your friend to the world for caprice and my sister to derision for disappointed hopes, involving them both in misery of the acutest kind?
Mr. Darcy:
I do not deny it.
Elizabeth Bennet:
How could you do it?
Mr. Darcy:
Because I believed your sister to be indifferent to him.
Elizabeth Bennet:
Indifferent?
Mr. Darcy:
I watched them most carefully and realized his attachment was deeper than hers.
Elizabeth Bennet:
That's because she's shy!
Mr. Darcy:
Bingley, too, is modest and was persuaded she didn't feel strongly for him--
Elizabeth Bennet:
Because you suggested it!
Mr. Darcy:
I did it for his own good!
Elizabeth Bennet: [pauses]
My sister hardly shows her true feelings to me. I suppose you suspect that his fortune had some bearing?
Mr. Darcy:
No! I wouldn't do your sister the dishonor, though it was suggested...
Elizabeth Bennet:
What was?
Mr. Darcy:
It was made perfectly clear that an advantageous marriage...
Elizabeth Bennet:
Did my sister give that impression?
Mr. Darcy:
No! No. No, there was, however, I have to admit, the matter of your family...
Elizabeth Bennet:
Our want of connection? Mr. Bingley didn't seem to vex himself about that--
Mr. Darcy:
No, it was more than that.
Elizabeth Bennet:
How, sir?
Mr. Darcy: [pauses]
It was the lack of propriety shown by your mother, your three younger sisters, even on occasion your father. Forgive me. You and your sister I must exclude from this.
Elizabeth Bennet:
And what about Mr. Wickham?
Mr. Darcy:
Mr.. Wickham?
Elizabeth Bennet:
What excuse can you give for your behavior towards him?
Mr. Darcy:
You take an eager interest in that gentleman's concerns.
Elizabeth Bennet:
He told me of his misfortunes.
Mr. Darcy:
Oh, yes, his misfortunes have been very great indeed.
Elizabeth Bennet:
You ruin his chances and yet you treat him with sarcasm.
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Pride & Prejudice - Social Skills and Personal Growth
Mr. Darcy:
I, do not have the talent of conversing easily with people I have never met before.
Elizabeth Bennet:
Perhaps you should take your aunt's advice and practice?
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Pride & Prejudice - A Request for a Dance
Mr. Darcy:
May I have the next dance, Miss Elizabeth?
Elizabeth Bennet:
You may.
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Pride & Prejudice - A Social Invitation in a Drawing Room
Caroline Bingley:
Miss Elizabeth, let us take a turn about the room.
Caroline Bingley:
It's refreshing, is it not after sitting so long in one attitude?
Elizabeth Bennet:
And it is a small kind of accomplishment, I suppose.
Caroline Bingley:
Will you not join us, Mr. Darcy?
Mr. Darcy:
You can only have two motives, Caroline and I would interfere with either.
Caroline Bingley:
What can he mean?
Elizabeth Bennet:
Our surest way of disappointing him will be to ask him nothing about it.
Caroline Bingley:
But do tell us, Mr. Darcy.
Mr. Darcy:
Either you are in each other's confidence and have secret affairs to discuss, or you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage by walking. If the first, I should get in your way. If the second, I can admire you much better from here.
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Pride & Prejudice - A Question of Dancing Preferences
Elizabeth Bennet:
Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?
Mr. Darcy:
Not if I can help it.
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Pride & Prejudice - A Declaration of Unwavering Love
Mr. Darcy:
You must know, surely you must know, it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I'd scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I would have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love... I love... I love you. And I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.
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Pride & Prejudice - Mr. Darcy's Reflection on His Writing Pace
Mr. Darcy:
You are mistaken; I write rather slowly.
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Pride & Prejudice - Unrequited Love and Inner Conflict
Mr. Darcy:
In vain I have struggled this will not do, allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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Pride & Prejudice - Mr. Darcy's Unspoken Longing for Elizabeth
Mr. Darcy:
Miss Elizabeth, I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer. These past few months have been a torment. I came to Rosings with the single object of seeing you. I had to see you.
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Pride & Prejudice - Mr. Darcy on Motives and Interference
Mr. Darcy:
You can only have two motives, Caroline, and I would not interfere with either.
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Pride & Prejudice - Darcy's View on Physical Attraction
Mr. Darcy:
Perfectly tolerable, I daresay, but not handsome enough to tempt me.
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