Lizzie Bennet. Good taste, everyone. Marvelous good taste! In honor of the occasion, here are some of Lizzie's best quotes from Pride and Prejudice.
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." Ch. 5.
During a dance with the entranced, yet awkward, Mr. 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." Ch. 18.
On her cousin and one-time suitor, Mr. Collins: "Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking." Ch. 24.
Any woman who can string together a series of genteel, yet decimating put-downs with the grace of a swan deserves to win this competition. Any woman with the moxy to sass a prude like Mr. Darcy while dancing with him and still make us smile while doing it deserves to win this competition. And any woman with the ability to clarify and aptly distinguish the difference between Pride and Vanity definitely deserves to win this competition.
Ms. Bennet, it is with honor that I present to you the title of...
Literary Fiction Female Hottie of 2008.
And with that honor, I'll now be commissioning a run of t-shirts that say
"Where's my Lizzie Bennet?"
Let me know if you'd like one.
12.26.2008
And the Winner is...
Lizzie Bennet. Good taste, everyone. Marvelous good taste! In honor of the occasion, here are some of Lizzie's best quotes from Pride and Prejudice.
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." Ch. 5.
During a dance with the entranced, yet awkward, Mr. 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." Ch. 18.
On her cousin and one-time suitor, Mr. Collins: "Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking." Ch. 24.
Any woman who can string together a series of genteel, yet decimating put-downs with the grace of a swan deserves to win this competition. Any woman with the moxy to sass a prude like Mr. Darcy while dancing with him and still make us smile while doing it deserves to win this competition. And any woman with the ability to clarify and aptly distinguish the difference between Pride and Vanity definitely deserves to win this competition.
Ms. Bennet, it is with honor that I present to you the title of...
Literary Fiction Female Hottie of 2008.
And with that honor, I'll now be commissioning a run of t-shirts that say
"Where's my Lizzie Bennet?"
Let me know if you'd like one.
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2 comments:
Well, ya I wanna shirt except can mine say "Where's my Vince Vaughn" on it? I'm into the whole Lizzie Bennet thing but in less of a Lindsey Lohan/ Samantha Ronson way and more of a Oprah/ Maya Angelou type way. Both amazing women- one's just way older than the other. And Oprah has Gayle- you can't discount that.
When the shirts go to print ... set one aside for me. Lizzie can take my heart (and everything else ;) anytime she wants.
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