Greer Garson credited as playing...
Elizabeth Bennet
- Elizabeth Bennet: Oh, if you want to be really refined, you have to be dead. There's no one as dignified as a mummy
- Elizabeth Bennet: Oh Mr. Darcy, Miss Bingley here is eager for her lesson. I hope you will enjoy it, Miss Bingley, and that you will learn to direct your darts with greater accuracy.
- Mr. Darcy: I have made the mistake of being honest with you.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Honesty is a greatly overrated virtue. Silence in this case would have been more agreeable.
- Mr. Darcy: I rather admired what you did this afternoon Miss Elizabeth. Your resentment of what you believe to be an injustice showed courage and loyalty. I could wish i might possess a friend who would defend me as ably as Mr. Wickham was defended today.
- Elizabeth Bennet: At this moment it's difficult to believe that you're so proud.
- Mr. Darcy: At this moment it's difficult to believe that you're so prejudiced.
- Mr. Wickham: You are right. The weather is too dangerous a subject. To be quite safe, I shall ask you how you like it here in Meryton.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Ahh! That's anything but safe!
- Mr. Wickham: I'm just discovering that I like it prodigiously!
- Elizabeth Bennet: You know him so little.
- Charlotte Lucas: Well, ignorance is bliss, Lizzie. If one is to spend one's life with a person, it's best to know as little as possible of his defects. After all, one would find them out soon enough.
- Caroline Bingley: What can you expect of one of his low descent?
- Elizabeth Bennet: I will tell you exactly of what I expect. Kindness. Honor. Generosity. Truthfulness. And, I might add that I expect precisely the same from persons of high descent.
- Lady Catherine de Bourgh: But remember this: marry him and you will be poor.
- Elizabeth Bennet: That would be no novelty for me, Lady Catherine.
- Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Once and for all, are you engaged to him?
- Elizabeth Bennet: No, I am not.
- Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Ah. And, uh, will you promise me never to enter into such an engagement?
- Elizabeth Bennet: No, I will not.
- Mr. Wickham: Is Miss Bingley engaged to Mr. Darcy?
- Elizabeth Bennet: If she is, she ought to break it.
- Mr. Wickham: Why?
- Elizabeth Bennet: No man can be in love and look so bored!
- Mr. Wickham: Shall I offer a remark on the weather?
- Elizabeth Bennet: If you can make it fit for a young lady's ears.
- Jane Bennet: I like Mr. Bingley better. Mr. Darcy is so...
- Elizabeth Bennet: So supercilious. My goodness! He does have an air about him.
- Mr. Wickham: Ahh! Polka mazurka! I didn't expect to find Meryton abreast with the new fashion!
- Elizabeth Bennet: You underrate us, Mr. Wickham. Meryton is abreast with everything. Everything except insolence and bad manners. Those London fashions we do not admire.
- Mrs. Bennet: Now, Jane, don't forget what I told you. Don't be too distant with him, and, be sure to laugh when he makes a joke.
- Mr. Bennet: Yes, even if it's a bad one.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Especially if it's a bad one.
- Caroline Bingley: I must know. Pray explain what the two motives might be, Mr. Darcy.
- Mr. Darcy: I've not the smallest objection to explaining.
- [explaining Caroline's motives on why she asked Mr. Darcy to walk with her and Elizabeth]
- Mr. Darcy: Either you have secret affairs to discuss, or, you are conscious that your figures show to the greatest advantage while walking. In the first case, I should be completely in your way. And, in the second, I can admire you much better from where I am.
- Caroline Bingley: Perfectly abominable! What shall we do to punish him, Miss Eliza?
- Elizabeth Bennet: As you know him so well, I shall leave his punishment to you.
- Caroline Bingley: Oh, you didn't come alone, I hope.
- Elizabeth Bennet: All alone.
- Caroline Bingley: But how shocking!
- Mrs. Bennet: Oh! And, Jane, if Mr. Bingley should suggest a stroll before dinner, don't refuse. For instance, they just delightfully secluded walks in those shrubberies around that field.
- Jane Bennet: Yes, Mama.
- Elizabeth Bennet: [looking up at the storm clouds approaching] There won't be much strolling today, Mama.
- Mrs. Bennet: Oh, dear me! I'm afraid you're right! Oh! And I had such hopes for those shrubberies!