I am not to be intimidated into anything so wholly unreasonable…You have widely mistaken my character, if you think I can be worked on by such persuasions as these. How far your nephew might approve of your interference in his affairs, I cannot tell; but you certainly have no right to concern yourself in mine.
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 56. Elizabeth responds with an emphatic refusal to Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s demand that she promise never to enter an engagement with Mr. Darcy. She coolly tells the upper class bully that she won’t be intimated by her. Elizabeth is not going to be pushed around by a snob.