#mr. collins

[bethanydelleman]

I feel like no one talks about how after Elizabeth refuses Collins like 6 times but he just keeps plowing ahead with his plans for marriage, she actually starts to go get her dad so he can stop Collins with the power of mansplaining:

To such perseverance in wilful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, that if he persisted in considering her repeated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as must be decisive, and whose behaviour at least could not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.

Jane Austen perfectly capturing the epitome of a female experience.

[greengableslover]

An unhappy alternative lies before you, Elizabeth. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995) dir. Simon Langton | Episode 2

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[thesensethatyouchoose]

Life is a little less terrible when your friends surprise you with t-shirts.

[thelittle-lady]

There are three types of fictional men:

“You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you.”

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

“What excellent boiled potatoes!”

[ninjastormz]

[mametupa]

[lizzy-bonnet]

You cannot convince me that Mr. Collins would not happily kick a baby if advised to do so by his noble patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

[carolinebingley-wouldve-hated-me]

[dandelionsunlight]

So I’m sure there’s lot of profound things I missed in Lucy’s letter to Mina on May 24th,

but my first and last thought was that all three men who proposed to Lucy -- all THREE of them -- had CLEARLY read Pride and Prejudice and taken the correct lesson from it, 

which is to say: they decided that whatever else they would be in life, they would not be Mr. Collins. 

[jelluu]

Mr Collins the type of guy to call women “Females”

[the-oddest-inkling]

Mr. Collins: I require a private audience with elizabeth 

Elizabeth:

[misfit-mania-the-first]

Is Mr. Collins really being like:

“But you can’t say no! I have cool friends and those friends can be your friends!!”

[field-s-of-flowers]

Just saw a Mr. Collins x reader fic. Jane Austen is CACKLING from her grave

[mametupa]

“ As you are aware, madam, when a certain melancholy event occurs, I shall be the involuntary means of disinheriting your daughters.   I have long felt it my duty to make such reparation as was in my power. Unfortunately, I cannot make amends to more than one. The difficulty now is one of, uh, choice.“

- Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice movie of 1940

[merthur-mybad]

Mr. Collins when Charlotte invites Lizzie to their house.