Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Mary Boland: Mrs. Bennet

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• Mrs. Bennet : Look at them! Five of them without dowries. What's to become of them?

  Mr. Bennet : Yes, what's to become of the wretched creatures? Perhaps we should have drowned some of them at birth.

• Mrs. Bennet : Mary, try to sparkle a little.

  [Mary grins horribly] 

  Mrs. Bennet : Just a little!

• Lydia Bennet : Has anybody heard how Jane is this morning?

  Mrs. Bennet : Eh, Mr. Bingley sent a note over by his groom. She's much better. Such a happy idea of mine sending her off in the rain.

  Mr. Bennet : Yes, but to Jane must go all the credit for having caught the cold, my dear.

• Mary Bennet : Look, Mama! I have just purchased Burke's essay on the sublime and beautiful!

  Mrs. Bennet : You and your books! No wonder you're compelled to wear disfiguring glasses!

• Mrs. Bennet : My dear, you flatter me. When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.

• Lady Lucas : He's one of the Darcy's of Pemberley.

  Mrs. Bennet : Oh, Mr. Darcy of Pemberley. Is that all you know about him?

  Lady Lucas : Oh, you mean is he married? No, dear, no. He isn't married.

• Mrs. Bennet : Now, come along, girls! Don't dawdle!

• Mrs. Bennet : Ah, Kitty, Kitty! Your dress is too décolleté. Pull it up a little.

• Mrs. Bennet : Mr. Bingley, we're all so delighted that you've taken Netherfield. Having it standing empty was a lost to the whole neighborhood. Like an oyster shell without an oyster in it.

  Mr. Bingley : Well, here is the oyster, Madame. But, if I may be permitted to say so, it is you who have the pearl!

  [looks at Jane] 

  Mrs. Bennet : Charming! Charming! Oh, ah, Jane dear, why don't you say something to Mr. Bingley?

  Jane Bennet : Good evening, sir.

• Mrs. Bennet : Ah, Lydia! Lydia, there's perspiration on your nose. Don't look so hot. It's very unladylike.

• Mrs. Bennet : Dear, try to sit where he can see you in profile. You know, dear, although I say I shouldn't, you have the loveliest profile in all Hampshire.

• Mrs. Bennet : Now, Jane, don't forget what I told you. Don't be too distant with him, and, be sure to laugh when he makes a joke.

  Mr. Bennet : Yes, even if it's a bad one.

  Elizabeth Bennet : Especially if it's a bad one.

• Mrs. Bennet : Oh! And, Jane, if Mr. Bingley should suggest a stroll before dinner, don't refuse. For instance, they just delightfully secluded walks in those shrubberies around that field.

  Jane Bennet : Yes, Mama.

  Elizabeth Bennet : [looking up at the storm clouds approaching]  There won't be much strolling today, Mama.

  Mrs. Bennet : Oh, dear me! I'm afraid you're right! Oh! And I had such hopes for those shrubberies!

• Lydia Bennet : Look at Kitty! She's a drunken door!

• Mrs. Bennet : Beware of Officers, I kept on telling her! They're fickle and unprincipled! They never have a six pence!

• Mrs. Bennet : Oh, Lizzie! Oh! Oh! You don't know how I have suffered, Lizzie! Such - such spasms, such - palpitations, such - fragileness!

• Mrs. Bennet : Come, my lambs! Oh, think of it! A daughter married! And, only sixteen last June!