Does anyone else want a thread of Pride and Prejudice quotes?

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Want to share some favourite lines, for fun? Ideally just from memory, and from the book not the films. But no rules really.

“But time and her aunt moved slowly.”

When Elizabeth and Darcy are making painstaking conversation about Matlock and Dovedale on the lawn at Pemberly, while they wait for the Gardiners.

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Sorry not a quote but on BBC Sounds there's an edition of The Reunion in which Kirsty Wark reunites various cast and crew of the 1995 Pride and Prejudice production - some wonderful anecdotes.

Mr Collins trod on my frock and tore it you know.

I take it she’s fond of a good blaze.

“Well, what am I to do on the occasion? Seems a hopeless business”.

I love Mr Bennett.

"I find that I can bear the solitude very cheerfully!" 🤣🤣🤣

There are few people in England I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient

Every internet expert ever 😂

"Two of the silliest girls in England" (Mr Bennet on Kitty and Lydia)

I've used this more than once when someone has been trying to pull me into their mess to sort out.

I shall offer to repay him: he will rant and rave about his love for you, and there will be an end to the matter

I do hope he'll forgive my having disliked him so much!

(not a line that made it into the 1995 version, for which I have never forgiven AD)

If you listen to the reunion podcast recommended above then you might not love him!

Sparkle, Mary, sparkle!

"What delight, what felicity"!

When Elizabeth is turning Darcy's proposal of marriage down : " Had your proposal been more gentlemanly...."

From memory, hope I haven't mangled it too much

‘I could easily forgive his pride, had he not mortified mine’.

“I shall never be quite happy till I have been all around the park. A phaeton and a nice pair of ponies would be just the thing. And now I must stop. The children have been wanting me this half hour.”

From Mrs Gardiner’s deliciously arch letter to Lizzie explaining why Darcy was at Lydia’s wedding. Definitely mangled by my memory!

Trivia: the actress who plays Mary in the film was once married to Elon Musk.

Oh, I feel so sorry for Mary when Mr B says “You have delighted us long enough. Let some other young ladies have time to exhibit.” in front of everyone….

Thanks for the thread. You've inspired me to read it again!

I believe I must date it from when I first saw his beautiful grounds at Pemberly…

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Ah thank you all, I will endeavour to remember some lines to pepper into my day

Ohh 😍 I love this thread!!

“The staircase, I flatter myself, is eminently suitable for a clergyman in my position, being neither too shallow nor too steep”

haven’t yet been in a situation where I could quote it though

I wonder if I want to listen then! 🤣 I can see flaws in his behaviour already but it’s the way he delivers things, I adore.

‘For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbours and laugh at them in our turn?’

Maybe not word for word, but this from Mr Bennet has always tickled me.

Mr Bennett is a wonderful character-but so competely awful. As a husband, as a father…as a human being