Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Tom Hollander: Mr. Collins
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Quotes
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Mr. Collins : [Talking about the potatoes] It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
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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.
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Mr. Collins : Charlotte, come here.
Charlotte Lucas : Has the pig escaped again?
[looks out window]
Charlotte Lucas : Oh. It's Lady Catherine.
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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.
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Mr. Collins : ...which are only to be obtained through intercourse...
[pause, thunder]
Mr. Collins : Forgive me... through the intercourse of friendship or civility.
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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.
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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.
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Mr. Collins : Mr. Collins at your service.
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Mr. Collins : [regarding Lady Catherine] My small rectory abuts her estate.