Mr. Darcy

I won't waste your time by attempting a self description. I find them pompous and vain. I will, however, allow a close acquaintance of mine whom I greatly admire do the honours. Please do not judge me based solely upon her early interpretations of my character."The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which tuned 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"