'Your list of the common extent of accomplishments', [Bingley] said Darcy, 'has too much truth. The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen. But I am very far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general. Miss Bingley: 'A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word [accomplished],[...] or the word will be but half deserved.' Elizabeth: 'I never saw such a woman. I never saw such capacity, and taste, and application, and elegance, as you describe united.'
