Lost in Austen (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.4 (2008)

Alex Kingston: Mrs Bennet

Quotes 

• Lady Catherine de Bourgh : [haughtily]  I shall say what I have to say, and then I shall leave immediately. First, I made it pellucidly clear to you, Mrs. Bennet, over my salt, that I considered the brothers Collins an excellent match for your daughters. Yet you have done nothing to promote the cause. On the contrary, you have abandoned them to a house run by criminally incompetent servants. Well, what do you have to say for yourself?

  [stunned silence] 

  Mrs. Bennet : I say this. You are a prig, madam, a pander and a common bully. And you cheat at cards. Do you suppose you may enter my house and brandish your hat at me thus? I have a mind to turn you upside down and use you to scrape out Ambrosia's sty.

  Lady Catherine de Bourgh : [coldly]  Madam, I take my leave of you.

  Mrs. Bennet : Do! Or I shall take you out and set to scraping.

  [Jane and Amanda try to stop themselves giggling] 

  Mrs. Bennet : Scrape, scrape, scrape I shall go!

  Mr. Bennet : Tally ho, wife!

  Mr Collins : Mrs. Bennet, you must desist.

  Jane Bennet : Oh, be quiet, you silly man. Do you suppose Mama would permit her daughters to be married to your brothers, when before her very eyes is the specimen of you?

  Amanda Price : Mrs. Bennet, that was... bloody marvellous.

  Mrs. Bennet : [modestly]  It *was* refreshing.

• Lady Catherine de Bourgh : Well? What do you have to say for yourself?

  Mrs. Bennet : I say this: You are a prig, Madam. A pander. And a common bully. And you cheat at cards! Do you suppose you may enter my house and brandish your hat at me thus? I have a mind to turn you upside down and use you to scrape out Ambrosia's sty.

  Lady Catherine de Bourgh : Madam, I take my leave of you.

  Mrs. Bennet : Do! Or I shall take you out and set to scraping! Scrape, scrape, scrape, I shall go!

  Mr. Bennet : Tally-ho, wife!

  Mr. Collins : Mrs. Bennet, you must desist!

  Jane Bennet : Oh be quiet, you silly man. Do you suppose Mama would permit her daughters to be married to your brothers when before her very eyes is the specimen of you?