- 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 will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love--I love--I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.
- Mr. Darcy: Miss Elizabeth. I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer. These past months have been a torment. I came to Rosings with the single object of seeing you... I had to see you. I have fought against my better judgment, my family's expectations, the inferiority of your birth by rank and circumstance. All these things I am willing to put aside and ask you to end my agony.
- Elizabeth Bennet: I don't understand.
- Mr. Darcy: I love you.
- [last lines]
- [US version]
- Mr. Darcy: How are you this evening, my dear?
- Elizabeth Bennet: Very well... although I wish you would not call me "my dear."
- Mr. Darcy: [chuckles] Why?
- Elizabeth Bennet: Because it's what my father always calls my mother when he's cross about something.
- Mr. Darcy: What endearments am I allowed?
- Elizabeth Bennet: Well let me think..."Lizzy" for every day, "My Pearl" for Sundays, and..."Goddess Divine"... but only on *very* special occasions.
- Mr. Darcy: And... what should I call you when I am cross? Mrs. Darcy...?
- Elizabeth Bennet: No! No. You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.
- Mr. Darcy: [he snickers] Then how are you this evening... Mrs. Darcy?
- [kisses her on the forehead]
- Mr. Darcy: Mrs. Darcy...
- [kisses her on the right cheek]
- Mr. Darcy: Mrs. Darcy...
- [kisses her on the nose]
- Mr. Darcy: Mrs. Darcy...
- [kisses her on the left cheek]
- Mr. Darcy: Mrs. Darcy...
- [finally kisses her on the mouth]
- Mr. Bennet: I cannot believe that anyone can deserve you... but it apppears I am overruled. So, I heartily give my consent.
- Elizabeth Bennet: [kissing and hugging him] Thank you.
- Mr. Bennet: I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to anyone less worthy.
- [ordered to order Lizzie to accept Mr. Collins's proposal]
- Mr. Bennet: Your mother insists on you marrying Mr. Collins...
- Mrs. Bennet: Yes! Or I'll never see her again!
- Mr. Bennet: Well, Lizzy, from this day henceforth it seems you must be a stranger to one of your parents...
- Mrs. Bennet: Who will maintain you when your father's gone?
- Mr. Bennet: Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins... and I will never see you again if you do.
- Mrs. Bennet: Mr. Bennet!
- Elizabeth Bennet: Thank you, Papa.
- Mr. Bennet: 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 objection other than your belief in my indifference?
- Mr. Bennet: None at all. We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of fellow... but that would be nothing if you really liked him.
- Elizabeth Bennet: I do like him.
- Mr. Bennet: Well...
- Elizabeth Bennet: I love him.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid.
- Mr. Darcy: I love you. Most ardently. Please do me the honor of accepting my hand.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Sir, I appreciate the struggle you have been through, and I am very sorry to have caused you pain. Believe me, it was unconsciously done.
- Mr. Darcy: Is this your reply?
- Elizabeth Bennet: Yes, sir.
- Mr. Darcy: Are you... are you laughing at me?
- Elizabeth Bennet: No.
- Mr. Darcy: Are you *rejecting* me?
- Elizabeth Bennet: I'm sure that the feelings which, as you've told me have hindered your regard, will help you in overcoming it.
- Mr. Darcy: Might I ask why, with so little endeavor at civility, I am thus repulsed?
- Elizabeth Bennet: And I might as well enquire why, with so evident a design of insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your better judgment.
- Elizabeth Bennet: And that put paid to it. I wonder who first discovered the power of poetry in driving away love?
- Mr. Darcy: I thought that poetry was the food of love.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Of a fine stout love, it may. But if it is only a vague inclination I'm convinced one poor sonnet will kill it stone dead
- Mr. Darcy: So what do you recommend to encourage affection?
- Elizabeth Bennet: Dancing. Even if one's partner is barely tolerable.
- [last lines, UK version]
- Mr. Bennet: If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, for heaven's sake, send them in. I'm quite at my leisure.
- 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?
- Mr. Darcy: So this is your opinion of me. Thank you for explaining so fully. Perhaps these offences might have been overlooked had not your pride been hurt by my honesty...
- Elizabeth Bennet: *My* pride?
- Mr. Darcy: ...in admitting scruples about our relationship. Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your circumstances?
- Elizabeth Bennet: And those are the words of a gentleman. From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others made me realize that you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.
- [they look at each other for a long time as though about to kiss]
- Mr. Darcy: Forgive me, madam, for taking up so much of your time.
- Elizabeth Bennet: He's been a fool about so many things, about Jane, and others... but then, so have I. You see, he and I are so similar.
- [starts laughing helplessly]
- Elizabeth Bennet: We've been nonsensical! Papa, I...
- Mr. Bennet: [has tears in his eyes and starts laughing, softly] You really do love him, don't you?
- Elizabeth Bennet: Very much.
- Elizabeth Bennet: [as she writes to Jane, Darcy suddenly enters] Mr.Darcy.
- [Darcy bows, Elizabeth stands and curtseys]
- Elizabeth Bennet: Please, do be seated.
- [no reponse]
- Elizabeth Bennet: [silence] Mr and Mrs Collins have gone to the village.
- Mr. Darcy: [nods and looks around the room] This is a charming house. I believe my aunt did a great deal to it when Mr.Collins first arrived.
- Elizabeth Bennet: I believe so. She could not have bestowed her kindness on a more grateful subject.
- [more silence, neither one of them know what to say]
- Elizabeth Bennet: Shall I call for some tea?
- Mr. Darcy: No, thank you.
- [a few brief more moments of silence]
- Mr. Darcy: Good day, Miss Elizabeth, it's been a pleasure.
- [rushes out, passing by Charlotte]
- Charlotte Lucas: [to Elizabeth] What have you done to poor Mr.Darcy?
- Elizabeth Bennet: ...I have no idea.
- Elizabeth Bennet: 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: 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.
- Elizabeth Bennet: He looks miserable, poor soul.
- Charlotte Lucas: Miserable he may be, but poor he most certainly is not.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Tell me.
- Charlotte Lucas: 10,000 a year and he owns half of Derbyshire.
- Elizabeth Bennet: The miserable half?
- Elizabeth Bennet: Are you too proud Mr. Darcy? And would you consider pride a fault or a virtue?
- Mr. Darcy: That I couldn't say.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Because we're doing our best to find a fault in you.
- Mr. Darcy: Maybe it's that 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.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Oh, dear, I cannot tease you about that. What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
- Caroline Bingley: A family trait, I think.
- Lady Catherine de Bourg: Now tell me once and for all: Are you engaged to him?
- Elizabeth Bennet: I am not.
- Lady Catherine de Bourg: 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.
- [Goes towards the door]
- Elizabeth Bennet: I must ask you to leave immediately.
- [Opens door]
- Elizabeth Bennet: Good night.
- Lady Catherine de Bourg: [Storms out] I have never been thus treated in my entire life.
- Mr. Darcy: Do you talk, as a rule, while dancing?
- Elizabeth Bennet: No... No, I prefer to be unsociable and taciturn... Makes it all so much more enjoyable, don't you think?
- Caroline Bingley: Miss Elizabeth, let us take a turn about the room.
- [Caroline takes Lizzy's arm in hers, and they walk gracefully in a circle around 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.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Did I just agree to dance with Mr. Darcy?
- Charlotte Lucas: I dare say you will find him amiable.
- Elizabeth Bennet: It would be most inconvenient since I have sworn to loathe him for all eternity.
- [both laugh]
- Mr. Collins: [Talking about the potatoes] It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
- Elizabeth Bennet: [after meeting Mr. Darcy and overhearing his remark about her] I could more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.
- Mr. Bennet: Well, if Jane does die, it will be a comfort to know she was in pursuit of Mr. Bingley.
- Mrs. Bennet: People do not *die* of colds.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Though she may well perish with the shame of having such a mother.
- Mr. Bingley: [overheard by Charlotte and Elizabeth] But her sister Elizabeth is very agreeable.
- Mr. Darcy: Thoroughly tolerable, I dare say, but not handsome enough to tempt *me*. You'd better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles. You're wasting your time with me.
- [the two men depart]
- Charlotte Lucas: Count your blessings, Lizzy. If he liked you, you'd have to talk to him.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Precisely. As it is I wouldn't dance with him for all of Darbyshire, let alone the miserable half.
- 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.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Charlotte!
- Charlotte Lucas: My dear Lizzy. I've come to tell you the news. Mr. Collins and I are... engaged.
- Elizabeth Bennet: To be married?
- Charlotte Lucas: Yes of course. What other kind of engaged is there?
- [Lizzy looks shocked]
- Charlotte Lucas: Oh, for Heaven's sake! Don't look at me like that Lizzy! There is no earthly reason why I shouldn't be as happy with him as any other.
- Elizabeth Bennet: But he's ridiculous!
- Charlotte Lucas: Oh hush! Not all of us can afford to be romantic. I've been offered a comfortable home and protection. There's alot to be thankful for.
- Elizabeth Bennet: But...
- Charlotte Lucas: I'm twenty-seven years old, I've no money and no prospects. I'm already a burden to my parents and I'm frightened. So don't you judge me, Lizzy. Don't you dare judge me!
- Elizabeth Bennet: Now if every man in the room does not end the evening in love with you then I am no judge of beauty.
- Jane Bennet: [giggles] Or men.
- Elizabeth Bennet: [laughs brightly] No, they are far too easy to judge.
- Jane Bennet: They're not all bad.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Humorless poppycocks, in my limited experience.
- Jane Bennet: One of these days, Lizzy, someone will catch your eye and then you'll have to watch your tongue.
- Mrs. Bennet: But she doesn't like him. I thought she didn't like him.
- Jane Bennet: So did I, so did we all. We must have been wrong.
- Mrs. Bennet: Wouldn't be the first time, will it?
- Jane Bennet: No, nor the last I dare say.
- Georgiana Darcy: [to Elizabeth on playing the piano] Do you play duets Miss Bennet?
- Elizabeth Bennet: Only when forced.
- Georgiana Darcy: [to Darcy] Brother, you must force her.
- [Mr. Darcy walks next to the piano]
- Elizabeth Bennet: You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy, by coming in all your state to hear me, but I won't be alarmed even if your sister does play so well.
- Mr. Darcy: I am well enough acquainted with you, Miss Elizabeth, to know that I can not alarm you, even should I wish it.
- Mr. Bingley: [Practicing proposing, with Mr. Darcy as Jane] Miss Bennett.
- Mr. Darcy: [Bows] Mr. Bingley.
- Elizabeth Bennet: [about Mr. Darcy] He is not proud. I was wrong, I was entirely wrong about him. You don't know him, Papa. If I told you what he's really like, what he's done.
- Mr. Bennet: What has he done?
- Caroline Bingley: [Elizabeth enters the room, Darcy stands. Caroline is appalled] Good Lord, Miss Elizabeth. Did you walk here?
- Elizabeth Bennet: I did.
- [long pause]
- Elizabeth Bennet: I'm so sorry. How is my sister?
- Mr. Darcy: She's upstairs.
- Elizabeth Bennet: [another pause; she smiles and curtseys] Thank you.
- [she leaves the room]
- Caroline Bingley: My goodness, did you see her hem? Six inches deep in mud. She looked positively mediaeval.
- Mr. Darcy: Are you so severe on your own sex?
- Elizabeth Bennet: I never saw such a woman. She would certainly be a fearsome thing to behold.
- Mr. Bennet: Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins... And I will never see you again if you do.
- Mrs. Bennet: Now she'll have to stay the night. Exactly as I predicted.
- Mr. Bennet: Good grief, woman. Your skills in the art of matchmaking are positively occult.
- [Mrs. Bennet giggles]
- Elizabeth Bennet: Though I don't think, Mama, you can reasonably take credit for making it rain.
- Mr. Bingley: I've never seen so many pretty girls in my life!
- Mr. Darcy: You are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room.
- Mr. Bingley: She is the most beautiful creature I have ever beheld. But her sister Elizabeth is very agreeable.
- Mr. Darcy: Thoroughly tolerable, I daresay, but not handsome enough to tempt me. You'd better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles. You're wasting your time with me.
- Mr. Darcy: Tell me, do you and your sisters very often walk to Meryton?
- Elizabeth Bennet: Yes, we often walk to Meryton. It's a great opportunity to meet new people. In fact, when you met us, we'd just had the pleasure of forming a new acquaintance.
- Mr. Darcy: Mr Wickham's blessed with such happy manners, as may ensure his making friends. Whether he is capable of retaining them, is less certain.
- Elizabeth Bennet: He's been so unfortunate as to lose your friendship. I dare say that is an irreversible event.
- Mr. Darcy: It is. Why do you ask such a question?
- Elizabeth Bennet: To make out your character.
- Mr. Darcy: What have you discovered?
- Elizabeth Bennet: Very little. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.
- Mr. Darcy: I hope to afford you more clarity in the future.
- 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 hand of the man who has ruined, perhaps for ever, the happiness of a most beloved sister? Do you deny that you separated a young couple who loved each other, exposing your friend to censure of 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. Collins: Charlotte, come here.
- Charlotte Lucas: Has the pig escaped again?
- [looks out window]
- Charlotte Lucas: Oh. It's Lady Catherine.
- Elizabeth Bennet: If he cannot percieve her regard, he is a fool.
- Charlotte Lucas: We are all fools in love.
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