Pride & Prejudice 2005 - Movie Quotes

Mr. Darcy You must know... surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I'd scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love--I love--I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Darcy Miss Elizabeth. I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer. These past months have been a torment. I came to Rosings with the single object of seeing you... I had to see you. I have fought against my better judgment, my family's expectations, the inferiority of your birth by rank and circumstance. All these things I am willing to put aside and ask you to end my agony.

Elizabeth Bennet I don't understand.

Mr. Darcy I love you.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[last lines]

[US version]

Mr. Darcy How are you this evening, my dear?

Elizabeth Bennet Very well... although I wish you would not call me "my dear."

Mr. Darcy [chuckles] Why?

Elizabeth Bennet Because it's what my father always calls my mother when he's cross about something.

Mr. Darcy What endearments am I allowed?

Elizabeth Bennet Well let me think..."Lizzy" for every day, "My Pearl" for Sundays, and..."Goddess Divine"... but only on *very* special occasions.

Mr. Darcy And... what should I call you when I am cross? Mrs. Darcy...?

Elizabeth Bennet No! No. You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

Mr. Darcy [he snickers] Then how are you this evening... Mrs. Darcy?

[kisses her on the forehead]

Mr. Darcy Mrs. Darcy...

[kisses her on the right cheek]

Mr. Darcy Mrs. Darcy...

[kisses her on the nose]

Mr. Darcy Mrs. Darcy...

[kisses her on the left cheek]

Mr. Darcy Mrs. Darcy...

[finally kisses her on the mouth]

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet And that put paid to it. I wonder who first discovered the power of poetry in driving away love?

Mr. Darcy I thought that poetry was the food of love.

Elizabeth Bennet Of a fine stout love, it may. But if it is only a vague inclination I'm convinced one poor sonnet will kill it stone dead

Mr. Darcy So what do you recommend to encourage affection?

Elizabeth Bennet Dancing. Even if one's partner is barely tolerable.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Darcy So this is your opinion of me. Thank you for explaining so fully. Perhaps these offences might have been overlooked had not your pride been hurt by my honesty...

Elizabeth Bennet *My* pride?

Mr. Darcy ...in admitting scruples about our relationship. Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your circumstances?

Elizabeth Bennet And those are the words of a gentleman. From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others made me realize that you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.

[they look at each other for a long time as though about to kiss]

Mr. Darcy Forgive me, madam, for taking up so much of your time.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[ordered to order Lizzie to accept Mr. Collins's proposal]

Mr. Bennet Your mother insists on you marrying Mr. Collins...

Mrs. Bennet Yes! Or I'll never see her again!

Mr. Bennet Well, Lizzy, from this day henceforth it seems you must be a stranger to one of your parents...

Mrs. Bennet Who will maintain you when your father's gone?

Mr. Bennet Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins... and I will never see you again if you do.

Mrs. Bennet Mr. Bennet!

Elizabeth Bennet Thank you, Papa.

🧡 1

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Darcy I love you. Most ardently. Please do me the honor of accepting my hand.

Elizabeth Bennet Sir, I appreciate the struggle you have been through, and I am very sorry to have caused you pain. Believe me, it was unconsciously done.

Mr. Darcy Is this your reply?

Elizabeth Bennet Yes, sir.

Mr. Darcy Are you... are you laughing at me?

Elizabeth Bennet No.

Mr. Darcy Are you *rejecting* me?

Elizabeth Bennet I'm sure that the feelings which, as you've told me have hindered your regard, will help you in overcoming it.

Mr. Darcy Might I ask why, with so little endeavor at civility, I am thus repulsed?

Elizabeth Bennet And I might as well enquire why, with so evident a design of insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your better judgment.

🧡 1

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bennet I cannot believe that anyone can deserve you... but it apppears I am overruled. So, I heartily give my consent.

Elizabeth Bennet [kissing and hugging him] Thank you.

Mr. Bennet I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to anyone less worthy.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet I'm very fond of walking.

Mr. Darcy Yes... yes I know.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bennet Lizzy, are you out of your senses? I thought you hated the man.

Elizabeth Bennet No, Papa.

Mr. Bennet He's rich, to be sure, and you will have more fine carriages than Jane. But will that make you happy?

Elizabeth Bennet Have you no objection other than your belief in my indifference?

Mr. Bennet None at all. We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of fellow... but that would be nothing if you really liked him.

Elizabeth Bennet I do like him.

Mr. Bennet Well...

Elizabeth Bennet I love him.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet What a beautiful pianoforte.

Georgiana Darcy My brother gave it to me. He shouldn't have.

Mr. Darcy Yes, I should've.

Georgiana Darcy Oh, very well then.

Mr. Darcy Easily persuaded, is she not?

Elizabeth Bennet Your unfortunate brother once had to put up with my playing for a whole evening.

Georgiana Darcy But he says you play so well.

Elizabeth Bennet Then he has perjured himself most profoundly.

Mr. Darcy No I said, "played quite well."

Elizabeth Bennet Oh, "quite well" is not "very well." I'm satisfied.

🧡 1

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Darcy I... do not have the talent of conversing easily with people I have never met before.

Elizabeth Bennet Perhaps you should take your aunt's advice and practice?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[last lines, UK version]

Mr. Bennet If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, for heaven's sake, send them in. I'm quite at my leisure.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jane Bennet [Accepting Mr. Bingley's proposal] Yes. A thousand times yes.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet He's been a fool about so many things, about Jane, and others... but then, so have I. You see, he and I are so similar.

[starts laughing helplessly]

Elizabeth Bennet We've been nonsensical! Papa, I...

Mr. Bennet [has tears in his eyes and starts laughing, softly] You really do love him, don't you?

Elizabeth Bennet Very much.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet [as she writes to Jane, Darcy suddenly enters] Mr.Darcy.

[Darcy bows, Elizabeth stands and curtseys]

Elizabeth Bennet Please, do be seated.

[no reponse]

Elizabeth Bennet [silence] Mr and Mrs Collins have gone to the village.

Mr. Darcy [nods and looks around the room] This is a charming house. I believe my aunt did a great deal to it when Mr.Collins first arrived.

Elizabeth Bennet I believe so. She could not have bestowed her kindness on a more grateful subject.

[more silence, neither one of them know what to say]

Elizabeth Bennet Shall I call for some tea?

Mr. Darcy No, thank you.

[a few brief more moments of silence]

Mr. Darcy Good day, Miss Elizabeth, it's been a pleasure.

[rushes out, passing by Charlotte]

Charlotte Lucas [to Elizabeth] What have you done to poor Mr.Darcy?

Elizabeth Bennet ...I have no idea.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Darcy May I have the next dance, Miss Elizabeth?

Elizabeth Bennet [taken aback] You may.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Darcy Do you talk, as a rule, while dancing?

Elizabeth Bennet No... No, I prefer to be unsociable and taciturn... Makes it all so much more enjoyable, don't you think?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet He looks miserable, poor soul.

Charlotte Lucas Miserable he may be, but poor he most certainly is not.

Elizabeth Bennet Tell me.

Charlotte Lucas 10,000 a year and he owns half of Derbyshire.

Elizabeth Bennet The miserable half?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet Are you too proud Mr. Darcy? And would you consider pride a fault or a virtue?

Mr. Darcy That I couldn't say.

Elizabeth Bennet Because we're doing our best to find a fault in you.

Mr. Darcy Maybe it's that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

Elizabeth Bennet Oh, dear, I cannot tease you about that. What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

Caroline Bingley A family trait, I think.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Lady Catherine de Bourg Now tell me once and for all: Are you engaged to him?

Elizabeth Bennet I am not.

Lady Catherine de Bourg And will you promise never to enter into such an engagement?

Elizabeth Bennet I will not and I certainly never shall. You have insulted me in every possible way, and can now have nothing further to say.

[Goes towards the door]

Elizabeth Bennet I must ask you to leave immediately.

[Opens door]

Elizabeth Bennet Good night.

Lady Catherine de Bourg [Storms out] I have never been thus treated in my entire life.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet Did I just agree to dance with Mr. Darcy?

Charlotte Lucas I dare say you will find him amiable.

Elizabeth Bennet It would be most inconvenient since I have sworn to loathe him for all eternity.

[both laugh]

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Collins [Talking about the potatoes] It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet [after reading Mr. Darcy's letter] I've been so blind.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Caroline Bingley Miss Elizabeth, let us take a turn about the room.

[Caroline takes Lizzy's arm in hers, and they walk gracefully in a circle around the room]

Caroline Bingley It's refreshing, is it not after sitting so long in one attitude?

Elizabeth Bennet And it is a small kind of accomplishment, I suppose.

Caroline Bingley Will you not join us, Mr. Darcy?

Mr. Darcy You can only have two motives, Caroline and I would interfere with either.

Caroline Bingley What can he mean?

Elizabeth Bennet Our surest way of disappointing him will be to ask him nothing about it.

Caroline Bingley But Do tell us, Mr. Darcy.

Mr. Darcy Either you are in each other's confidence and have secret affairs to discuss, or you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage by walking. If the first, I should get in your way. If the second, I can admire you much better from here.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bennet Well, if Jane does die, it will be a comfort to know she was in pursuit of Mr. Bingley.

Mrs. Bennet People do not *die* of colds.

Elizabeth Bennet Though she may well perish with the shame of having such a mother.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet [after meeting Mr. Darcy and overhearing his remark about her] I could more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bingley [overheard by Charlotte and Elizabeth] But her sister Elizabeth is very agreeable.

Mr. Darcy Thoroughly tolerable, I dare say, but not handsome enough to tempt *me*. You'd better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles. You're wasting your time with me.

[the two men depart]

Charlotte Lucas Count your blessings, Lizzy. If he liked you, you'd have to talk to him.

Elizabeth Bennet Precisely. As it is I wouldn't dance with him for all of Darbyshire, let alone the miserable half.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet Charlotte!

Charlotte Lucas My dear Lizzy. I've come to tell you the news. Mr. Collins and I are... engaged.

Elizabeth Bennet To be married?

Charlotte Lucas Yes of course. What other kind of engaged is there?

[Lizzy looks shocked]

Charlotte Lucas Oh, for Heaven's sake! Don't look at me like that Lizzy! There is no earthly reason why I shouldn't be as happy with him as any other.

Elizabeth Bennet But he's ridiculous!

Charlotte Lucas Oh hush! Not all of us can afford to be romantic. I've been offered a comfortable home and protection. There's alot to be thankful for.

Elizabeth Bennet But...

Charlotte Lucas I'm twenty-seven years old, I've no money and no prospects. I'm already a burden to my parents and I'm frightened. So don't you judge me, Lizzy. Don't you dare judge me!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bennet How happy for you, Mr. Collins, to possess a talent for flattering with such... delicacy.

Elizabeth Bennet Do these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Mr. Collins They arise chiefly from what is passing of the time. And though I do sometimes amuse myself with arranging such little elegant compliments, I always wish to give them as unstudied an air as possible.

Elizabeth Bennet Oh, believe me, no one would suspect your manners to be rehearsed.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet Now if every man in the room does not end the evening in love with you then I am no judge of beauty.

Jane Bennet [giggles] Or men.

Elizabeth Bennet [laughs brightly] No, they are far too easy to judge.

Jane Bennet They're not all bad.

Elizabeth Bennet Humorless poppycocks, in my limited experience.

Jane Bennet One of these days, Lizzy, someone will catch your eye and then you'll have to watch your tongue.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bingley [Practicing proposing, with Mr. Darcy as Jane] Miss Bennett.

Mr. Darcy [Bows] Mr. Bingley.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mrs. Bennet But she doesn't like him. I thought she didn't like him.

Jane Bennet So did I, so did we all. We must have been wrong.

Mrs. Bennet Wouldn't be the first time, will it?

Jane Bennet No, nor the last I dare say.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[Mr. Darcy walks next to the piano]

Elizabeth Bennet You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy, by coming in all your state to hear me, but I won't be alarmed even if your sister does play so well.

Mr. Darcy I am well enough acquainted with you, Miss Elizabeth, to know that I can not alarm you, even should I wish it.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Georgiana Darcy [to Elizabeth on playing the piano] Do you play duets Miss Bennet?

Elizabeth Bennet Only when forced.

Georgiana Darcy [to Darcy] Brother, you must force her.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Charlotte Lucas Not all of us can afford to be romantic, Lizzy.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet [about Mr. Darcy] He is not proud. I was wrong, I was entirely wrong about him. You don't know him, Papa. If I told you what he's really like, what he's done.

Mr. Bennet What has he done?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Caroline Bingley [Elizabeth enters the room, Darcy stands. Caroline is appalled] Good Lord, Miss Elizabeth. Did you walk here?

Elizabeth Bennet I did.

[long pause]

Elizabeth Bennet I'm so sorry. How is my sister?

Mr. Darcy She's upstairs.

Elizabeth Bennet [another pause; she smiles and curtseys] Thank you.

[she leaves the room]

Caroline Bingley My goodness, did you see her hem? Six inches deep in mud. She looked positively mediaeval.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?

Mr. Darcy Not if I can help it.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bennet [exits study, finds four of his daughters eavesdropping] Good heavens. People.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Darcy Are you so severe on your own sex?

Elizabeth Bennet I never saw such a woman. She would certainly be a fearsome thing to behold.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bingley I've never seen so many pretty girls in my life!

Mr. Darcy You are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room.

Mr. Bingley She is the most beautiful creature I have ever beheld. But her sister Elizabeth is very agreeable.

Mr. Darcy Thoroughly tolerable, I daresay, but not handsome enough to tempt me. You'd better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles. You're wasting your time with me.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bennet Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins... And I will never see you again if you do.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mrs. Bennet Now she'll have to stay the night. Exactly as I predicted.

Mr. Bennet Good grief, woman. Your skills in the art of matchmaking are positively occult.

[Mrs. Bennet giggles]

Elizabeth Bennet Though I don't think, Mama, you can reasonably take credit for making it rain.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet If he cannot percieve her regard, he is a fool.

Charlotte Lucas We are all fools in love.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Darcy Tell me, do you and your sisters very often walk to Meryton?

Elizabeth Bennet Yes, we often walk to Meryton. It's a great opportunity to meet new people. In fact, when you met us, we'd just had the pleasure of forming a new acquaintance.

Mr. Darcy Mr Wickham's blessed with such happy manners, as may ensure his making friends. Whether he is capable of retaining them, is less certain.

Elizabeth Bennet He's been so unfortunate as to lose your friendship. I dare say that is an irreversible event.

Mr. Darcy It is. Why do you ask such a question?

Elizabeth Bennet To make out your character.

Mr. Darcy What have you discovered?

Elizabeth Bennet Very little. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.

Mr. Darcy I hope to afford you more clarity in the future.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Collins Charlotte, come here.

Charlotte Lucas Has the pig escaped again?

[looks out window]

Charlotte Lucas Oh. It's Lady Catherine.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet If I was uncivil, then that is some excuse. But I have other reasons, you know I have.

Mr. Darcy What reasons?

Elizabeth Bennet Do you think anything might tempt me to accept the hand of the man who has ruined, perhaps for ever, the happiness of a most beloved sister? Do you deny that you separated a young couple who loved each other, exposing your friend to censure of the world for caprice and my sister to derision for disappointed hopes, involving them both in misery of the acutest kind?

Mr. Darcy I do not deny it.

Elizabeth Bennet How could you do it?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bingley [to Jane, about to propose to her] First, I must tell you I've been the most unmitigated and comprehensive ass.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet So which of the painted peacocks is our Mr. Bingley?

Charlotte Lucas Well he's on the right and on the left is his sister.

Elizabeth Bennet And the person with the quizzical brow?

Charlotte Lucas That is his good friend, Mr. Darcy.

Elizabeth Bennet The miserable poor soul!

Charlotte Lucas Miserable, he may be, but poor he most certainly is not.

Elizabeth Bennet Tell me.

Charlotte Lucas Ten thousand a year and he owns half of Derbyshire.

Elizabeth Bennet The miserable half?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Collins ...which are only to be obtained through intercourse...

[pause, thunder]

Mr. Collins Forgive me... through the intercourse of friendship or civility.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet I thought you were in London.

Mr. Darcy No... No. I'm not.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Netherfield Butler A Mrs. Bennet, a Miss Bennet, a Miss Bennet and a Miss Bennet, sir.

Caroline Bingley Oh for heaven's sake, are we to receive every Bennet in the country?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jane Bennet Mr. Bingley is just what a young man ought to be. Sensible, good humour...

Elizabeth Bennet Handsome, conveniently rich.

Jane Bennet You know perfectly well that I do not believe that marriage should be driven by thoughts of money!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jane Bennet Oh, Lizzy, if I could but see you happy. If there were such another man for you.

Elizabeth Bennet Perhaps Mr. Collins has a cousin.

[They both laugh]

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Wickham And buckles. When it comes to buckles, I'm lost.

Elizabeth Bennet Dear, oh dear. You must be the shame of the regiment.

Mr. Wickham Oh, a laughing stock!

Elizabeth Bennet What DO your superiors do with you?

Mr. Wickham Ignore me, mostly.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mary Bennet What are men compared to rocks and mountains?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mary Bennet The glories of nature. What are men compared to rocks and mountains?

Elizabeth Bennet Believe me. Men are either eaten up with arrogance or stupidity. If they are amiable, they are so easily led they have no minds of their own whatsoever.

Mrs. Gardiner Take care, my love. That savors strongly of bitterness.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bennet Poor Jane. Still, a girl likes to be crossed in love now and then. It gives her something to think of... and a sort of distinction amongst her companions.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jane Bennet How do you like it here in Hertfordshire, Mr. Bingley?

Mr. Bingley Very much.

Elizabeth Bennet The library at Netherfield, I've heard, is one of the finest in the country.

Mr. Bingley Yes, fills me with guilt. Not a very good reader, you see. Prefer being out of doors. Oh, I mean I can read, of course. And I'm not suggesting you can't read out of doors, of course. Um...

Jane Bennet I wish I read more but there always seems to be so many other things to do.

Mr. Bingley Yes, that's exactly what I meant!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bennet [upon finding a very upset Mary] Mary, my dear Mary.

[hugs her]

Mr. Bennet Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

Mary Bennet [sobbing] I've been practicing all week.

Mr. Bennet I know, my dear.

Mary Bennet [sobbing] I hate balls!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet [On Marriage] Is that really all you think about?

Mrs. Bennet When you have five daughters, Lizzie, tell me what else will occupy your thoughts, and then perhaps you will understand.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Lady Catherine de Bourg Mr. Darcy is engaged to my daughter. Now what have you to say?

Elizabeth Bennet Only this - that if he is so, you can have no reason to suppose he will make an offer to *me*.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mrs. Bennet Oh, my goodness. Everybody behave naturally.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jane Bennet Do you really believe he liked me, Lizzie?

Elizabeth Bennet Jane, he danced with you most of the night and stared at you for the rest of it. But I give you leave to like him. You've liked great deal a stupider person. You're a great deal too apt to like people in general, you know. All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

Jane Bennet Not his friend! I still can't believe what he said about you.

Elizabeth Bennet Mr. Darcy? I could more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine. But no matter. I doubt we shall ever speak again.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Charlotte Lucas What on earth have you done to poor Mr. Darcy?

Elizabeth Bennet I have no idea.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Charlotte Lucas Count your blessings, Lizzie. If he liked you you'd have to talk to him.

Elizabeth Bennet Precisely. As it is, I wouldn't dance with him for all of Derbyshire, let alone the miserable half!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Darcy And are you having a pleasant trip?

Elizabeth Bennet Yes... very pleasant.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Collins Mrs. Bennet I was hoping, if it would not trouble you, that I might solicit a private audience with Miss Elizabeth in the course of the morning.

Mrs. Bennet Oh, yes. Certainly. Lizzy will be very happy indeed. Everyone, out. Mr. Collins would like a private audience with your sister.

Elizabeth Bennet No, no, wait, please. I beg you. Mr. Collins can have nothing to say to me that anybody need not hear.

Mrs. Bennet No nonsense, Lizzy. I desire you will stay where you are. Everyone else to the drawing room. Mr. Bennet?

Mr. Bennet But...

Mrs. Bennet Now.

🧡

👏 1

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bennet There's no need. I already have.

Mrs. Bennet Have? Oh Mr Bennet! How can you tease me so? Have you no compassion for my poor nerves?

Mr. Bennet Oh you mistake me, my dear. I have the highest respect for them. They've been my constant companions these twenty years.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Caroline Bingley Charles. You cannot be serious.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Caroline Bingley We are a long way from Grosvenor Square, are we not, Mr. Darcy?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Darcy Mr. Gardiner, are you fond of fishing?

Mr. Gardiner Oh, very much.

Mr. Darcy Can I persuade you to accompany me down to the lake this afternoon? It's very well-stocked, and its inhabitants have been left in peace for far too long.

Mr. Gardiner I would be delighted.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mrs. Bennet Oh, Mr. Bennet, the way you carry on, anyone would think our girls look forward to a grand inheritance. When you die, Mr. Bennet, which may in fact be very soon, our girls will be left without a roof to their head nor a penny to their name.

Elizabeth Bennet Oh, Mama, please. It's ten in the morning.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Caroline Bingley I can't help thinking that at some point someone is going to produce a piglet and we'll all have to chase it.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet Sir, I am honored by your proposal, but I regret that I must decline it.

Mr. Collins I know ladies don't seek to seem too eager...

Elizabeth Bennet Mr Collins, I am perfectly serious. You could not make me happy. And I'm the last woman in the world who could make you happy.

Mr. Collins I flatter myself that your refusal is merely a natural delicacy. Besides, despite manifold attractions, it is by no means certain another offer of marriage will ever be made to you. I must conclude that you simply seek to increase my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females.

Elizabeth Bennet I am not the sort of female to torment a respectable man. Please understand me, I cannot accept you.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet He's so... He's so... He's so rich.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mrs. Bennet Do you not want to know who has taken it?

Mr. Bennet As you wish to tell me, my dear, I doubt I have any choice in the matter.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bingley [Flustered after visiting with the Bennett's had not gone as hoped] She was going to say "sit down", and...

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Kitty Bennet Papa!

Mrs. Bennet Is he amiable?

Mary Bennet Who?

Kitty Bennet Is he handsome?

Mary Bennet Who?

Lydia Bennet He's sure to be handsome.

Elizabeth Bennet For five thousand a year, it would not matter if he's got warts and a leer.

Mary Bennet Who's got warts?

Mr. Bennet I'll give my heartiest consent to his marrying whichever of the girls he chooses.

Lydia Bennet So will he come to the ball tomorrow, Papa?

Mr. Bennet I believe so.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Collins Do not make yourself uneasy, my dear cousin, about your apparel.

Charlotte Lucas Just put on whatever you bought that's best.

Mr. Collins Lady Catherine has never been averse to the truly humble.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jane Bennet [Talking about Mr. Bingley after meeting him] He is just what a young man ought to be.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mrs. Bennet ...and then he danced the third with Miss Lucas.

Mr. Bennet We were all there, dear.

Mrs. Bennet Oh, poor thing. It is a shame she's not more handsome. There's a spinster in the making and no mistake. The fourth with a Miss King, of little standing... and the fifth again with Jane.

Mr. Bennet If he'd had any compassion for me, he would have sprained his ankle in the first set.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Wickham I can't be trusted.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet Kitty! Lydi! What have I told you about listening at the door!

Lydia Bennet Shh! Nevermind that! It's Mr. Bingley, right from the North!

[Kitty is incoherent]

Lydia Bennet Five thousand a year!

Elizabeth Bennet Really?

Lydia Bennet Lydia Bennet, Kitty Bennet: [in unison] He's single!

Jane Bennet Who's single?

Elizabeth Bennet A Mr. Bingley, apparently.

Kitty Bennet Shh!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bingley Your friend, Miss Lucas, is a most amusing young woman.

Elizabeth Bennet Oh, yes, I adore her!

Mrs. Bennet It is a pity she's not more handsome.

Elizabeth Bennet Mama!

Mrs. Bennet Oh, but Lizzie would never admit that she's plain. Of course, it's my Jane that's considered the beauty of the county.

Jane Bennet No, Mama, please...

Mrs. Bennet When she was only fifteen there was a gentleman that was so much in love with her that I was sure he would make her an offer. However, he did write her some very pretty verses.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Collins Mr. Collins at your service.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Collins [regarding Lady Catherine] My small rectory abuts her estate.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mrs. Bennet Jane is a splendid dancer, is she not?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mrs. Bennet Mr. Bennet, you must introduce him to the girls! Immediately!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Sir William Lucas Mr. Bingley, my eldest daughter you know. Mrs. Bennet, Miss Jane Bennet, Elizabeth, and Miss Mary Bennet.

Mrs. Bennet It is a pleasure. I have two others, but they are already dancing.

Mr. Bingley I'm delighted to make your acquaintance.

Sir William Lucas And may I introduce Mr. Darcy of Pemberley and Derbyshire.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Lydia Bennet Oh, Mama! You will never, ever, ever believe what we're about to tell you!

Mrs. Bennet Well tell me quickly, my love!

Lydia Bennet Lydia Bennet, Kitty Bennet: [in unison] The regiment are coming!

Mrs. Bennet Officers!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet Mr Collins is a man who makes you despair at the entire sex.

Mr. Wickham Yours, I believe.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bennet How can that possibly affect them?

Mrs. Bennet Oh Mr. Bennet, how can you be so tiresome? You know he must marry one of them!

Mr. Bennet Ah, so that is his desire in settling here.

Mrs. Bennet You must go and visit him at once!

Mr. Bennet Good heavens. People.

Mrs. Bennet For we may not visit if you do not, as you well know, Mr. Bennet!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mrs. Bennet You must visit him at once.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Bingley This is a disaster isn't it!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Charlotte Lucas I didn't know you were coming to see me! What's the matter?

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet [to Mr. Collins] Mr. Collins, I cannot accept you.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Lady Catherine de Bourg That is very strange.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mrs. Bennet Netherfield Park is let at last. Have you heard who has taken it?

Mr. Bennet I have.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

[first lines]

Jane Bennet Lydia. Kitty.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mrs. Bennet Find some useful employment.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mrs. Bennet Mr. Wickham has been transferred to Newcastle, wherever that is.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Collins Perhaps you will do me the honour, Miss Elizabeth?

Elizabeth Bennet Oh.. I did not think you danced, Mr. Collins.

Mr. Collins I do not think it incompatible with the office of a clergyman to indulge in such an innocent diversion. In fact, several people, with her Ladyship included, have complimented me on my.. lightness of foot.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet I couldn't sleep.

Mr. Darcy Nor I. My aunt..

Elizabeth Bennet Yes, she was here.

Mr. Darcy How can I ever make amends for such behaviour?

Elizabeth Bennet After what you have done for Lydia.. and I suspect for Jane also, it is I who should be making amends.

Mr. Darcy You must know.. Surely, you must know it was all for you.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet [Whispering in church] So, how long do you plan to stay in Kent, Colonel?

Colonel Fitzwilliam As long as Darcy chooses. I'm at his disposal.

Elizabeth Bennet Everyone appears to be at his disposal. I wonder he doesn't marry and secure a lasting convenience of that kind.

Colonel Fitzwilliam It would be a lucky woman.

Elizabeth Bennet [Amused] Really?

Colonel Fitzwilliam Darcy is a most loyal companion. From what I heard on our journey here, he recently came to the rescue of one of his friends just in time.

Elizabeth Bennet What happened?

Colonel Fitzwilliam He saved the man from an imprudent marriage.

Elizabeth Bennet [Loudly] Who was the man?

Colonel Fitzwilliam [pause] His closest friend, Charles Bingley.

Elizabeth Bennet [Upset] Did Mr. Darcy give a reason for this interference?

Colonel Fitzwilliam Apparently, there were very strong objections to the lady.

Elizabeth Bennet What kind of objections? Her lack of fortune?

Colonel Fitzwilliam I think it was a family that was considered unsuitable.

Elizabeth Bennet So he separated them?

Colonel Fitzwilliam I believe so. I know nothing else.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet Thank you for tending to my sister so diligently. She is in far better comfort here than she would have been at home.

Mr. Bingley It's a pleasure. I mean it's.. Sorry, not a pleasure that she's ill, of course. It's a pleasure that she's here.. being ill.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mrs. Gardiner [All admiring a bust of Darcy] A handsome face. Lizzy, is it a true likeness?

Pemberley Lady Does the young lady know Mr. Darcy?

Elizabeth Bennet [Pensively] Only a little.

Pemberley Lady Would you not consider him a handsome man, miss?

Elizabeth Bennet Yes.

[pause]

Elizabeth Bennet Yes, I daresay he his.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Collins [to Lizzy] It is my intention, if I may be so bold, to remain close to you throughout the evening.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jane Bennet I still think there must have been a misunderstanding.

Elizabeth Bennet Oh, Jane, do you never think ill of anybody?

Jane Bennet Well, how could Mr. Darcy do such a thing? I will discover the truth with Mr. Bingley at the ball tonight.

Elizabeth Bennet If it is not true, let Mr. Darcy contradict it himself. Till he does, I hope never to encounter him.

Jane Bennet Poor, unfortunate Mr. Wickham.

Elizabeth Bennet On the contrary, Wickham is twice the man Darcy is.

Jane Bennet And let us hope a rather more willing dancer.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Caroline Bingley What interesting relatives you have, Miss Elizabeth.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Collins Is that Mr. Darcy of Pemberley and Derbyshire?

Elizabeth Bennet I believe so.

Mr. Collins I must make myself known to him immediately.

Elizabeth Bennet But, sir...

Mr. Collins He's the nephew of my esteemed patroness, Lady Catherine.

[approaches Darcy]

Elizabeth Bennet Mr. Collins, he will consider it an impertinence!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Jane Bennet Apparently, your Mr. Wickham has been called on some business to town.

Jane Bennet [after a few more dance steps] And my informer tells me that he would have been less inclined to be engaged were it not for the presence at Netherfield of a certain gentleman.

Elizabeth Bennet That "gentleman" barely warrants the name.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Lydia Bennet ... lucky he did come back, or I would have had to ask Mr. Darcy, but I don't really like him...

Elizabeth Bennet Mr. Darcy?

Lydia Bennet Oh, I forgot! But I shouldn't have said a word.

Elizabeth Bennet Mr. Darcy was at your wedding?

Lydia Bennet He was the one that discovered us. He paid for the wedding, Wickham's commission, everything. But don't tell anyone! He told me not to tell.

Elizabeth Bennet Mr Darcy?

Lydia Bennet Stop it, Lizzy! Mr. Darcy's not half as high and mighty as you sometimes.

[laughs]

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mrs. Gardiner Lizzy, we've just met Mr. Darcy! You didn't tell us that you'd seen him. He's asked us to dine with him tomorrow. He was very civil.

[to Mr. Gardiner]

Mrs. Gardiner Was he not?

Mr. Gardiner Very civil.

Mrs. Gardiner [to Lizzy] Not at all how you had painted him.

Elizabeth Bennet To dine with him?

Mrs. Gardiner There's something pleasant about his mouth when he speaks.

Mr. Gardiner You don't mind delaying our journey another day, do you?

[Lizzy reacts awkwardly]

Mrs. Gardiner He particularly wanted you to meet his sister.

Elizabeth Bennet His sister...

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mrs. Bennet Oh, yes. We fully expect a most advantageous marriage.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet I'm so vexed!

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet And what about Mr. Wickham?

Mr. Darcy [Steps closer] Mr. Wickham?

Elizabeth Bennet What excuse can you give for your... your behaviour towards him?

Mr. Darcy You take an eager interest in that gentleman's concerns.

Elizabeth Bennet He told me of his misfortunes.

Mr. Darcy Oh yes, his misfortunes have been very great, indeed.

Elizabeth Bennet You ruin his chances, and yet you treat it with sarcasm.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Darcy [Leaves note] I came to leave you this. I shall not renew the sentiments which were so disgusting to you. But, if I may, I will address the two offenses you have laid against me.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Lydia Bennet Mama! You will never, ever, EVER believe in what I'm about to tell you.

Mrs. Bennet Well, tell me quickly, my love.

Mr. Bennet She's going to take the veil.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet How could you do it?

Mr. Darcy Because I believed your sister indifferent to him.

Elizabeth Bennet Indifferent?

Mr. Darcy I watched them, most carefully, and realised his attachment was deeper than hers.

Elizabeth Bennet That's because she's shy!

Mr. Darcy Bingley, too, is modest and was persuaded she didn't feel strongly for him!

Elizabeth Bennet Because you suggested it.

Mr. Darcy I did it for his own good.

Elizabeth Bennet My sister hardly shows her true feelings to me!

Elizabeth Bennet [pause] I suppose you suspect that.. his fortune had some bearing.

Mr. Darcy No, I wouldn't give your sister the dishonour, though it was suggested...

Elizabeth Bennet What was?

Mr. Darcy It was made perfectly clear an advantageous marriage.

Elizabeth Bennet Did my sister give that impression?

Mr. Darcy No, no! No, there was, however, I have to admit, a matter of your family.

Elizabeth Bennet Our want of connection? Mr. Bingley didn't seem to vex himself about that!

Mr. Darcy No, it was more than that.

Elizabeth Bennet How, sir?

Mr. Darcy It was the lack of propriety shown by your mother, your three younger sisters, even on occasion by your father! Forgive me. You and your sister I must exclude from this.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Elizabeth Bennet Do you plan to go to the Netherfield ball then, Mr. Wickham?

Mr. Wickham Perhaps. How long has Mr. Darcy been a guest there?

Elizabeth Bennet About a month. Forgive me, but are you acquainted with him, with Mr. Darcy?

Mr. Wickham Indeed, I have been connected with his family since infancy. You may well be surprised, Miss Elizabeth, especially given our cold greeting this afternoon.

Elizabeth Bennet Well, I hope that your plans in favour of Meryton will not be affected by your relations with the gentleman.

Mr. Wickham Oh no, it is not for me to be driven away. If he wishes to avoid seeing me, he must go, not I.

Elizabeth Bennet I must ask, Mr. Wickham, what is the manner of your disapproval of Mr. Darcy?

Mr. Wickham My father managed his estate. We grew up together, Darcy and I. His father treated me like a second son.. loved me like a son. We were both with him the day he died. With his last breath, his father bequeathed me the rectory in his estate. He knew I had my heart set on joining the church, but Darcy ignored his wishes and gave the living to another man.

Elizabeth Bennet But, why?

Mr. Wickham Jealousy. His father.. Well, he loved me better, and Darcy couldn't stand it.

Elizabeth Bennet How cruel.

Mr. Wickham So now, I am a poor foot soldier, too lowly even to be noticed.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Lady Catherine de Bourg Come, Miss Bennet, and play for us.

Elizabeth Bennet No, I beg you.

Lady Catherine de Bourg For music is my delight. In fact, there are few people in England who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or better natural taste. Had I ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. So would Anne, if her health would have allowed her.

Elizabeth Bennet Lady Catherine, I am not afflicted with false modesty. When I say I play poorly, I...

Mr. Collins Come, come, Lizzy. Her Ladyship demands it.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Darcy [In letter to Lizzy] My father loved Mr. Wickham as a son. In consequence, he left him a generous living. But, upon my father's death, Mr. Wickham announced he had no intention of taking orders. He demanded the value of the living, which he was given and which he gambled away within weeks. He then wrote demanding more money, which I refused, after which, he severed all acquaintance. He came back to see us last summer, at which point, he declared passionate love for my sister whom he tried to persuade to elope with him. She is to inherit £30,000. When it was made clear he would never receive a penny of that inheritance, he disappeared. I will not attempt to convey the depth of Georgiana's despair. She was 15 years old. As to the other matter, that of your sister and Mr. Bingley, though the motives which governed me may to you appear insufficient, they were in the service of a friend.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Darcy I trust your family is in good health, Miss Elizabeth?

Elizabeth Bennet They are, thank you. My eldest sister is currently in London. Perhaps you happened to see her there?

Mr. Darcy I haven't been fortunate enough, no.

Lady Catherine de Bourg [Interrupting] Do you play the pianoforte, Miss Bennet?

Elizabeth Bennet A little, ma'am, and very poorly.

Lady Catherine de Bourg Oh. Do you draw?

Elizabeth Bennet No, not at all.

Lady Catherine de Bourg Your sisters, do they draw?

Elizabeth Bennet Not one.

Lady Catherine de Bourg That's very strange. I suppose you had no opportunity. Your mother should have taken you to town every spring for the benefit of the masters.

Elizabeth Bennet I'm sure my mother wouldn't have minded, but my father hates town.

Lady Catherine de Bourg Has your governess left you?

Elizabeth Bennet We never had a governess.

Lady Catherine de Bourg No governess? Five daughters brought up at home without a governess. I never heard such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your education.

Elizabeth Bennet Not at all, Lady Catherine.

Lady Catherine de Bourg Your younger sisters, are they out in society?

Elizabeth Bennet Yes, ma'am, all.

Lady Catherine de Bourg All? What, all five out at once? Oh, that's very odd. And you are only the second? The younger ones out before the elders are married? Your youngest sisters must be very young.

Elizabeth Bennet Yes, my youngest is not sixteen.

[Lady Catherine reacts disapprovingly]

Elizabeth Bennet But I think it would be very hard on younger sisters not to have their share of amusement because the elder is still unmarried. It would hardly encourage sisterly affection.

Lady Catherine de Bourg Upon my word, you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. Pray, what is your age?

Elizabeth Bennet With three younger sisters grown up, Your Ladyship can hardly expect me to own to it.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Mr. Collins [Proposing to Lizzy] And now, nothing remains but for me to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection.

🧡

👏

🥺

🤔

🥱

Pride & Prejudice Movie Quotes