Ivanhoe:

"Sir Templar," said he, "the cheeks of our Saxon maidens have seen too little of the sun to enable them to bear the fixed glance of a crusader."

Ivanhoe:

"By my halidom," said he, "we have forgotten, Sir Prior, to name the fair Sovereign of Love and of Beauty, by whose white hand the palm is to be distributed. For my part, I am liberal in my ideas, and I care not if I give my vote for the black-eyed Rebecca."

Ivanhoe:

"From your master," said he, "I will accept neither arms nor ransom. Say to him in my name, that our strife is not ended---no, not till we have fought as well with swords as with lances---as well on foot as on horseback. To this mortal quarrel he has himself defied me, and I shall not forget the challenge.---Meantime, let him be assured, that I hold him not as one of his companions, with whom I can with pleasure exchange courtesies; but rather as one with whom I stand upon terms of mortal defiance."

Pride and Prejudice:

Hertfordshire

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Lucas Lodge

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Longbourn

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Meryton

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Netherfield Park

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Catherine

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Elizabeth

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Jane

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Lydia

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Mary

Pride and Prejudice:

`Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.''

Pride and Prejudice:

A military life is not what I was intended for, but circumstances have now made it eligible. The church ought to have been my profession -- I was brought up for the church, and I should at this time have been in possession of a most valuable living, had it pleased the gentleman we were speaking of just now.''

Pride and Prejudice:

`Upon my word, Sir,your hope is rather an extraordinary one after my declaration. I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. -- You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who would make you so..."

Pride and Prejudice:

"So...your sister is crossed in love I find. I congratulate her. Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions. When is your turn to come? You will hardly bear to be long outdone by Jane. Now is your time. Here are officers enough at Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country. Let Wickham be your man. He is a pleasant fellow, and would jilt you creditably."

Pride and Prejudice:

"I often tell young ladies, that no excellence in music is to be acquired, without constant practice. I have told Miss Bennet several times, that she will never play really well, unless she practises more; and though Mrs. Collins has no instrument, she is very welcome, as I have often told her, to come to Rosings every day, and play on the piano forte in Mrs. Jerkinson's room. She would be in nobody's way, you know, in that part of the house.''

Pride and Prejudice:

``And remember that I have not much reason for supposing it to be Bingley. What he told me was merely this; that he congratulated himself on having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most imprudent marriage, but without mentioning names or any other particulars, and I only suspected it to be Bingley from believing him the kind of young man to get into a scrape of that sort, and from knowing them to have been together the whole of last summer."

Pride and Prejudice:

"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.''

Pride and Prejudice:

``How despicably have I acted!'' she cried. -- ``I, who have prided myself on my discernment! -- I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity, in useless or blameable distrust. -- How humiliating is this discovery! -- Yet, how just a humiliation! -- Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. -- Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment, I never knew myself.''

Pride and Prejudice:

"At Brighton she will be of less importance, even as a common flirt, than she has been here. The officers will find women better worth their notice. Let us hope, therefore, that her being there may teach her her own insignificance. At any rate, she cannot grow many degrees worse without authorizing us to lock her up for the rest of her life.''

Pride and Prejudice:

``I say no more than the truth, and what every body will say that knows him, I have never had a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him ever since he was four years old. If I was to go through the world, I could not meet with a better. But I have always observed that they who are good-natured when children are good-natured when they grow up; and he was always the sweetest-tempered, most generous-hearted, boy in the world.''

Pride and Prejudice:

" If you were sensible of your own good, you would not wish to quit the sphere in which you have been brought up. Very well. I shall now know how to act. Do not imagine.... that your ambition will ever be gratified. I came to try you. I hoped to find you reasonable; but, depend upon it, I will carry my point....I take no leave of you.... I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased."

Pride and Prejudice:

" I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit. , I was spoilt by my parents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, all that was benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing; to care for none beyond my own family circle; to think meanly of all the rest of the world; to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own. Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you...By you, I was properly humbled."

Jane Eyre:

Jane's late uncle on her mother's side, who jane believes visited her in the red room

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The nursemaid at Gateshead Hall who shows some attachment to Jane Eyre.

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The superintendent of Lowood Institution, whom Jane wishes to emulate.

Jane Eyre:

The overly mature best friend of Jane at Lowood, she dies early from consumption.

Jane Eyre:

The nurse or "bonne" of Adele Varens, who is French.

Jane Eyre:

Mistress of Gateshead Hall, who takes Jane in against her will.

Jane Eyre:

The charity school Jane finds herself in for 8 years.

Jane Eyre:

The first "home" Janes knows but is not unhappy to leave behind.

Jane Eyre:

Rochester's Dog

Jane Eyre:

The imposing house where Jane often hears wild, wicked laughter.

Jane Eyre:

Young orphan who grows up, goes to school and find work at Thornfield.

Jane Eyre:

The master of Thornfield Hall whose foreboding appearance disrupts his household.

Jane Eyre:

The doctor who comes to see Jane and suggests sending her to a school.

Jane Eyre:

The widow who brings Jane to Thornfield Hall as governess.

Jane Eyre:

The spoiled son who likes to beat Jane for punishment and amusement.

Jane Eyre:

The history teacher at Lowood, who often punishes Helen Burns with a whipping.

Jane Eyre:

The child of a French woman who becomes Jane's only charge.

Jane Eyre:

The cruel, intolerant, money-pinching master of Lowood; he humiliates Jane in public.

Jane Eyre:

The beautiful and arrogant woman Rochester leads to believe he wishes to marry.

Jane Eyre:

The French opera dancer with whom Rochester once had an affair.

Jane Eyre:

The servant who Jane thinks to be the source of midnight laughter she hears.

Jane Eyre:

The stranger Jane finds herself caring for in the middle of the night after his injury.

Jane Eyre:

" I expected a scene of some kind. I was prepared for the hot rain of tears; only I wanted them to be shed on my breast: now a senseless floor has received them, or your drenched handkerchief. But I err: you have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose, then, your heart has been weeping blood?"

Jane Eyre:

"You will find she is some young lady who has had a misunderstanding with her friends, and has probably injudiciously left them. We may, perhaps, succeed in restoring her to them, if she is not obstinate: but I trace lines of force in her face which make me sceptical of her tractability....... She looks sensible, but not at all handsome."

Jane Eyre:

"What can you mean? It may be of no moment to you; you have sisters and don't care for a cousin; but I had nobody; and now three relations, - or two, if you don't choose to be counted, - are born into my world full-grown. I say again, I am glad!"

Jane Eyre:

"Whois it? Whatis it? Who speaks?....Great God! - what delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me? ....And where is the speaker? Is it only a voice? Oh! Icannotsee, but I must feel, or my heart will stop and my brain burst. Whatever - whoever you are - be perceptible to the touch or I cannot live!"