Pride and Prejudice (TV Mini Series)

Episode 3 (1995)

Jennifer Ehle: Elizabeth Bennet

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• Elizabeth Bennet : You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy. The mode of your declaration merely spared me any concern I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner. You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it. From the very beginning your manners impressed me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. I had not known you a month before I felt you were the last man in the world whom I could ever marry!

• Mr. Darcy : I fear I am ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers.

  Elizabeth Bennet : Shall we ask him why? Why a man of sense and education, who has lived in the world, should be ill-qualified to recommend himself to strangers?

  Mr. Darcy : I am... I have not that talent which some possess, of conversing easily with strangers.

  Elizabeth Bennet : I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault, because I would not take the trouble of practicing.

  Mr. Darcy : You're perfectly right. You've employed your time much better. No one admitted to the privilege of hearing you, could think anything wanting.

• Mr. Darcy : In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

  Mr. Darcy : Almost from the earliest moments of our acquaintance, I have come to feel for you a passionate admiration and regard, which despite all my struggles, has overcome every rational objection and I beg you, most fervently, to relieve my suffering and consent to be my wife.

  Elizabeth Bennet : In such cases as these, I believe the established mode is to express a sense of obligation... but I cannot. I have never desired your good opinion and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly. I'm sorry to cause pain to anyone, but it was most unconsciously done and I hope will be of short duration.

• Charlotte Lucas : Mr. Collins tends the gardens himself and spends a good part of every day in them.

  Elizabeth Bennet : The exercise must be beneficial.

  Charlotte Lucas : Indeed it is. I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day

  Elizabeth Bennet : So often? Is that necessary?

  Charlotte Lucas : Perhaps not, but I admit I encourage him in that also. And when he is in the house, he is mostly in his book room which affords a good view of the road whenever Lady Catherine's carriage should drive by.

  Elizabeth Bennet : And you prefer to sit in this parlor.

  Charlotte Lucas : Yes. So you see, it often happens that a whole day passes in which we have not spent more than a few minutes in each other's company. I find that I can bear the solitude very cheerfully. I find myself... quite content with my situation Lizzy.

• Maria Lucas : Who's that girl dancing with Mr. Wickham?

  Elizabeth Bennet : Her name is Mary King.

  Charlotte Lucas : She's come to stay with her uncle in Meryton.

  Maria Lucas : She's not very pretty, is she?

  Charlotte Lucas : Beauty is not the only virtue, Maria. She has just inherited a fortune of ten thousand pounds, I understand.

  Mrs. Gardiner : Now *that* is a definite virtue.

• Mr. Collins : Lady Catherine de Bourgh herself was kind enough to suggest that these shelves be fitted exactly as you see them there.

  Elizabeth Bennet : Shelves in the closet. Happy thought indeed.