Pride and Prejudice (TV Mini Series)

Episode 1 (1995)

Susannah Harker: Jane Bennet

Quotes 

• Elizabeth Bennet : For a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

  Mrs. Bennet : Yes, he must indeed! And who better than one of our five girls?

  Lydia Bennet : What a fine joke if he were to choose me!

  Kitty Bennet : Or me!

  [Lydia and Kitty laugh] 

  Jane Bennet : [Reprimanding]  Lydia!

• Jane Bennet : [Referring to Mr. Darcy and his company at the first dance]  They're very elegant.

  Elizabeth Bennet : Better pleased with themselves than what they see, I think.

• Jane Bennet : He's just what a young man ought to be, Lizzie. Sensible, lively and I never saw such happy manners.

  Elizabeth Bennet : Handsome, too, which a young man ought to be, if he possibly can. And he seemed to like you very much, which shows good judgment. No, I give you leave to like him, you've liked many a stupider person.

• Jane Bennet : And Mr. Darcy may improve on closer acquaintance.

  Elizabeth Bennet : You mean he'll be in a humour to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men? "She is tolerable, I suppose, but she's not handsome enough to tempt me".

  Jane Bennet : It was very wrong of him to say so.

  Elizabeth Bennet : Aye, a capital offence!

• Mrs. Bennet : From Netherfield? Oh, Jane, well, what does it say?

  Jane Bennet : It's from Miss Bingley.

  Mrs. Bennet : Oh, well, that is a good sign, too. Give it to me! - My dear friend... there now... dine with Louisa and me today... la-di-da, la-di-da, la-di-da... as the gentlemen are to dine with the officers. - Oh, that's unlucky! Still you must go and make what you can out of it. - Yours ever, Caroline Bingley. - Very elegant hand.

  Jane Bennet : May I have the carriage, father?

  Mrs. Bennet : The carriage? No indeed! You must go on horseback for it looks like rain. Then you will have to stay the night!

  Jane Bennet : Mother!

  Mrs. Bennet : Oh, why do you look at me like that? Would you go all the way to Netherfield and back without seeing Mr. Bingley? No indeed. - You will go on Nellie, that will do very well, indeed.