"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession
 of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

 "However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his
first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds
of the surrounding families that he is considered as the rightful property
of some one or other of their daughters."

  "If I can but see one of my daughters happily settle at Netherfield…
and all others equally well married.  I shall have nothing to wish for."

  "Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person,
  handsome features…"

  "She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me."

  " In vain, I've 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."

  "…why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me you chose
  to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even
  against your character?"

  "From the very beginning, from the first moment, I may almost say, of my
  Acquaintance with you, your manners impressing me with the fullest belief of your
  Arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others…and
  I had not known you a month before I felt that you were that last man in the
  World whom I could ever be prevailed to marry."

| The Bennets | The Lucases | The Bingleys | The Philips | The Darcys |
| The de Bourghs | The Gardiners | Mr. William Collins | Mr. Wickham |Mrs. Reynolds | Mr.& Mrs. Forster |Mrs. Long |

The Bennets
They lived in Longbourn, a mile away from Meryton and near in distance to Lucas Lodge.

Mr. Bennet
He is the  father of the five Bennet girls, has a sarcastic humor and loves Lizzy most.
Jane Austen described him as, "Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts,
sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of
three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character."

Mrs. Bennet
"She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.
When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous.
The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news."

Jane Bennet
She is the most handsome of the Bennet girls.  Sweet, sensible, and never says
or think ill of other people.  She is close to Lizzy. She is greatly admired by Mr. Bingley.

Elizabeth "Lizzy" Bennet
According to her mother, " she is not half as handsome as Jane nor half so good-humoured as
   Lydia."  But to her father, "she has something more of quickness than her sisters."
  And to her admirer, Mr. Darcy, " she has a fine pair of eyes "

Mary Bennet
She was "a young lady of deep reflection…and read great books, and make extracts".  She was considered
       to be " the only plain one in the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments,
was always impatient for display."

Catherine "Kitty" Bennet
Her poor cough can be sometimes annoying to her silly mother.
Loves the Redcoat as much as Lydia did.

Lydia Bennet
She is the most hyperactive of all sisters, the youngest yet the tallest of all, as she said.
As Jane Austen further described her, "Lydia was a stout, well-grown girl of fifteen,
with a fine complexion and good-humoured countenance;
a favourite with her mother, whose affection had brought her into public at an early age.
She had high animal spirits, and a sort of natural self-consequence,
which the attentions of the officers, to whom her uncle's good dinners and
her own easy manners recommended her, had increased into assurance. "
She always want to be in balls and want to see the Redcoats at Meryton as often as she can.
At so young age, Mrs. Bennet does not mind at all that she is flirting with the Redcoats and
 she later on eloped with Mr. Wickham.

The  Lucases
They lived in Lucas Lodge, a mile away from Meryton and an easy distance to Longbourn.

Sir William Lucas
 He "had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune and
              risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the King, during his mayoralty.
    The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly.  It had given him disgust to his business and
    to his residence in a small market town; and quitting them both…" they moved to Lucas Lodge,
   a mile from Meryton.  He was "by nature inoffensive, friendly and obliging, his presentation
            at St. James's had made him courteous."

Lady Lucas
She "was a very good kind of woman, not too clever to be a valuable neighbour to Mrs. Bennet.

Charlotte Lucas
The eldest daughter of Sir Lucas and Lady Lucas.  She was considered to be
" sensible, intelligent young woman,
about twenty-seven, was Elizabeth's intimate friend."
She accepted Mr. Collins, cousin of the Bennet girls,
after Elizabeth rejected his proposal of marriage to her.

Maria Lucas
She is Charlotte's younger sister.

The Philips
They lived in Meryton, a mile away from Longbourn

Mr. Philips
He was a clerk to Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Philips' father and succeeded their father in the business.

Mrs. Philips
She is the sister of Mrs. Bennet, who lives in Meryton

The Bingleys
A tenant of Netherfield

Mr. Charles Bingley
He is a single man of large fortune of four or five thousand a year.
He is from the North of England and took Netherfield.
Jane Austen described him as, "was good-looking and gentlemanlike;
he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners."
And in comparison to Mr. Darcy, "In understanding, Darcy was superior.
Bingley was by no means deficient." "Bingley was sure of being liked wherever he appeared."

Miss Caroline Bingley and Mrs. Hurst
They are Mr. Bingley's sisters. Jane Austen describes them as " they were in fact very fine ladies;
not deficient in good humour when they were pleased, nor in the power of being agreeable
where they chose it; but proud and conceited.  They were rather handsome, had been educated
in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds,
were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank;
and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others."

Mr. Hurst
He is the husband of Mrs. Hurst. He was described as
" a man of more fashion than fortune". He only cared for what he eats, drinks, and plays.

The Darcys
They lived in Pemberly

Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy
Jane Austen described him as he entered the Meryton Ball as, " Mr. Darcy soon
drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features
noble mien - and the report which was in general circulation within five
minutes after his entrance of his having ten thousand a year…
he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening,
till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered
to be proud,to be above his company, and above being pleased;
and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding,
disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend."
He was also clever, "haughty, reserved and fastidious."
To his housekeeper, he was considered to be " the best landlord and the best master that ever lived."
And was even described as "sweetest-tempered, generous-hearted".

Miss Georgiana Darcy
She was described by her housekeeper as " the handsomest young lady that
ever was seen and so accomplished."
As to Elizabeth, she heard her to be proud but " She was only exceedingly shy."
Jane Austen further described her as "… tall and on a larger scale
than Elizabeth; and though little more than sixteen, her figure was formed,
and her appearance womanly and graceful.  She was less handsome than her brother,
but there was sense and good humour in her face and her manners were perfectly unassuming and gentle."

The de Bourghs
They lived in Rosings

Lady Catherine de Bourgh
She is Mr. Darcy's aunt. Elizabeth described her as "tall, large woman,
with strongly-marked features, which might once have been handsome.
Her air was not conciliating, nor was her manner of receiving them such as
to make her visitors forget their inferior rank. She was not rendered formidable by silence;
but whatever she said was spoken in so authoritative a tone as marked her self-importance.."

Anne de Bourgh
She is Mr. Darcy's cousin and was strangely engaged to her since birth.
They were both engaged by Darcy's mother and Lady Catherine.
Elizabeth was shocked to see "her being so thin, and so small.
There was neither in figure nor face any likeness between the ladies.
Miss de Bourgh was pale and sickly; her features, though not plain, were insignificant;
and she spoke very little, except in a low voice to Mrs. Jenkinson,
in whose appearance there was nothing remarkable, and who was
entirely engaged in listening to what she said, and placing a screen in the proper direction before her eyes."

Colonel Fitzwilliam
He is a nephew of Lady Catherine, and cousin to Mr. Darcy.
He is the "younger son of Darcy's uncle, Lord ----;".
He " was about thirty, not handsome, but in person and address most truly the gentleman."
 

The Gardiners
They lived in Gracechurch Street, London

Mr. Gardiner
He is the brother of Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Philips; uncle of the Bennet girls.
He lives in London with a respectable line of trade.
He was further described as " sensible, gentlemanlike man, greatly superior to
his sister as well by nature as education."

Mrs. Gardiner
She is the aunt of the Bennet girls, wife of Mr. Gardiner.
She "was several years younger than Mrs. Bennet and
Mrs. Philips, was an amiable, intelligent, elegant woman,
and a great favourite with all her Longbourn nieces."
 

Mr. Wickham
Elizabeth was fond of him at first. " Mr. Wickham was the happy man towards
whom almost every female eye was turned, and Elizabeth was the happy
woman by whom he finally seated himself; and the agreeable manner in which he
immediately fell into conversation, though it was only on its being a wet night, and
on the probability of a rainy season, made her feel that the commonest, dullest,
most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the skill of the speaker."
Darcy describes Wickham as "Mr. Wickham is the son of very respectable man,
who had for many years the management of all the Pemberly estates; and whose good
conduct in the discharge of his trust naturally inclined my father to be of service to him; and
on George Wickham, who was his god-son, his kindness was therefore liberally bestowed.
My father supported him at school, and afterwards at Cambridge; -- most important assistance,
as his own father, always poor from the extravagance of his wife…" But he was ungrateful,
almost led Miss Darcy to ruin.  He said bad things about Mr. Darcy and eloped with
Lydia in the middle part of the story.

Mr. Collins
He is the cousin of Mr. Bennet to which the property of Mr. Bennet is entailed.
Jane Austen described him as " …not a sensible man, and the deficiency
of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of
his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father;
and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary
terms, without forming at it any useful acquaintance. The subjection in which his father
had brought him up had given him originally great humility of manner, but it was now
a good deal counteracted by the self-conceit of a weak head, living in retirement, and the c
onsequential feelings of early and unexpected prosperity. A fortunate chance had recommended
him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect
which he felt for her high rank and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with
a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his rights as a
rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility."
He offered marriage to Elizabeth but was rejected then proposed to
Charlotte Lucas on that same day, and he was accepted.

Mrs. Reynolds
She is the housekeeper of Pemberly.
"a respectable-looking, elderly woman, much less fine, and more civil,
than she had any notion of finding her. "

Mr. and Mrs. Forster

Mrs. Long

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