"But I can assure you," she added, "that Lizzy does not lose much by not suiting his fancy; for he is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing. So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him! He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very great! Not handsome enough to dance with! I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given him one of your set-downs. I quite detest the man."
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 3. Mrs. Bennet hasn’t any good word to say to Mr. Bennet about Mr. Darcy after she and the Bennet girls return home from the Meryton ball. She detests Darcy for his attitude towards Elizabeth at the ball, and is particularly vexed at him for slighting her daughter by not asking her to dance. Mrs. Bennet is quick to judge Mr. Darcy and forms a strong prejudice against him, based purely on first impressions, labeling him as vain and conceited.