Pride & Prejudice (2005) - Quotes

Experience the Greatest Love Story This Holiday

Taglines: This holiday season, experience the greatest love story of all time.

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Unlikely Connections in Love and Life

Taglines: Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

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A Timeless Romance Transcending Boundaries

Taglines: A romance ahead of its time.

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A Dislike for Endearments in Conversation

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

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

Mr. Darcy: Why?

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

Mr. Darcy: What endearments am I allowed?

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

Mr. Darcy: [Chuckles] And...what should I call you when I'm cross? "Mrs. Darcy"?

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

Mr. Darcy: [chuckles; kisses her forehead] How are you this evening... Mrs. Darcy?

Mr. Darcy: [kisses her left cheek] Mrs. Darcy

Mr. Darcy: [kisses her nose] Mrs. Darcy

Mr. Darcy: [kisses her right cheek] Mrs. Darcy

Mr. Darcy: [they kiss] Mrs. Darcy

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A Father's Concern for His Daughter's Happiness

Mr. Bennet:: Shut the door, please, Elizabeth. 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 other objection than your belief in my indifference?

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

Elizabeth Bennet:: I do like him.

Mr. Bennet:: Well...

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

Mr. Bennet:: What has he done?

Mr. Bennet:: Good Lord. I must pay him back.

Elizabeth Bennet:: No. You mustn't tell anyone. He wouldn't want it. We misjudged him, Papa. Me more than anyone in every way. Not just in this matter. I've been nonsensical. But he's been a fool about, about Jane, about so many other things. But then, so have I. You see, he and I are...he and I are so similar. We're both so stubborn. Papa, I...

Mr. Bennet:: [smiling] You really do love him, don't you?

Elizabeth Bennet:: Very much.

Mr. Bennet:: [Elizabeth hugs him] I cannot believe that anyone can deserve you. But it seems I am overruled. So I heartily give my consent. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzie, to anyone less worthy.

Elizabeth Bennet:: [kisses his forehead; Elizabeth leaves the room] Thank you.

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

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Confrontation Over Allegations of Affection

Lady Catherine:: You can be at no loss, Miss Bennet to understand why I am here.

Elizabeth Bennet:: Indeed you are mistaken. I cannot account for this honour at all.

Lady Catherine:: I warn you, I am not to be trifled with. A report of most alarming nature has reached me. That you intend to be united with my nephew, Mr Darcy. I know this to be a scandalous falsehood. Though not wishing to injure him by supposing it possible, I instantly set off to make my sentiments known.

Elizabeth Bennet:: If you believed it impossible, I wonder you took the trouble of coming so far.

Lady Catherine:: To hear it contradicted, Miss Bennet.

Elizabeth Bennet:: Your coming will be rather a confirmation surely if indeed such a report exists.

Lady Catherine:: lf? You then pretend to be ignorant of it? Has it not been industriously circulated by yourself?

Elizabeth Bennet:: I have never heard of it.

Lady Catherine:: And can you declare there is no foundation for it?

Elizabeth Bennet:: I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your Ladyship. You may ask a question which I may choose not to answer.

Lady Catherine:: This is not to be borne! Has my nephew made you an offer of marriage?

Elizabeth Bennet:: Your Ladyship has declared it to be impossible.

Lady Catherine:: Let me be understood! Mr Darcy is engaged to my daughter. Now what have you to say?

Elizabeth Bennet:: Only this: If that is the case, you can have no reason to suppose he would make an offer to me.

Lady Catherine:: You selfish girl. This union has been planned since their infancy. Do you think it can be prevented by a young woman of inferior birth whose own sister's elopement resulted in a scandalously patched-up marriage only achieved at the expense of your uncle? Heaven and Earth! Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted? Now tell me once and for all, are you engaged to him?

Elizabeth Bennet:: I am not.

Lady Catherine:: 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. I must ask you to leave immediately. Goodnight.

Lady Catherine:: I have never been thus treated in my entire life!

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A Gift of Music and Affection

Elizabeth Bennet: And 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: [looking astonished] 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.

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Consequences of Betrayal in Love

Mr. Darcy: No, believe me, I didn't mean--

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 man who has ruined, perhaps forever, the happiness of a most beloved sister? Do you deny that you separated a young couple who loved each other, exposing your friend to 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. Darcy: Because I believed your sister to be indifferent to him.

Elizabeth Bennet: Indifferent?

Mr. Darcy: I watched them most carefully and realized 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: [pauses] My sister hardly shows her true feelings to me. I suppose you suspect that his fortune had some bearing?

Mr. Darcy: No! I wouldn't do your sister the dishonor, though it was suggested...

Elizabeth Bennet: What was?

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

Elizabeth Bennet: Did my sister give that impression?

Mr. Darcy: No! No. No, there was, however, I have to admit, the 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: [pauses] It was the lack of propriety shown by your mother, your three younger sisters, even on occasion your father. Forgive me. You and your sister I must exclude from this.

Elizabeth Bennet: And what about Mr. Wickham?

Mr. Darcy: Mr.. Wickham?

Elizabeth Bennet: What excuse can you give for your behavior 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 him with sarcasm.

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Social Skills and Personal Growth

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?

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A Request for Privacy Misunderstood

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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Elizabeth Bennet Enjoys the Dance

Elizabeth Bennet:: I love this dance.

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Dancing with Dread: A Social Dilemma

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

Charlotte Lucas: I daresay you will find him to be very amiable.

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

A Request for a Dance

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

Elizabeth Bennet: You may.

A Social Invitation in a Drawing Room

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

A Question of Dancing Preferences

Elizabeth Bennet: Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?

Mr. Darcy: Not if I can help it.

Foolishness and Comparisons in Love

Charlotte: We are all fools in love.

Mary Bennet: What are men compared to rocks and mountains?

Mr. Wickham: He liked me better, and Darcy couldn't stand it.

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

Mr.Darcy: Maybe it's because 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.

A Declaration of Unwavering Love

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 would have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love... I love... I love you. And I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

Mr. Darcy's Reflection on His Writing Pace

Mr. Darcy: You are mistaken; I write rather slowly.

Unrequited Love and Inner Conflict

Mr. Darcy: In vain I have struggled this will not do, allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

Mr. Darcy's Unspoken Longing for Elizabeth

Mr. Darcy: Miss Elizabeth, I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer. These past few months have been a torment. I came to Rosings with the single object of seeing you. I had to see you.