Mrs Bennet Quotes

• An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Pride, Mr Collins

  'Pride and Prejudice' (1813) ch. 20 (Mr Bennet)

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• Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Men, Years

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

  Jane Austen

  Children, Mistake, Compassion

  Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë (2017). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abby, Persuasion, The Watsons, Sanditon, Lady Susan, Love and Freindship, The History of England, Lesley Castle”, p.261, e-artnow

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• Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.

  Jane Austen

  Daughter, Order, Should Have

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.26

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Thinking, Vanity

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.26, Waking Lion Press

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• Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

  Jane Austen

  Ironic, Suffering, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.97, Full Moon Publications

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• My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

  Jane Austen

  One Day, Lasts, Parks

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.235, Wordsworth Editions

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• A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Funny, Romantic

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.104, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Prejudice, Literature

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 24 (1813)

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• I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

  Jane Austen

  Understanding, Pleasure, Pride And Prejudice Pride

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.89, Lulu.com

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• Those who do not complain are never pitied.

  Jane Austen

  Ironic, Prejudice, Complaining

  Jane Austen, Pamela Jane, Deborah Guyol (2015). “Pride and Prejudice and Kitties: A Cat-Lover's Romp through Jane Austen's Classic”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

  Jane Austen

  Old Friends, Prejudice, Nerves

  "Pride and Prejudice".

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• A battle cry" Mr. Bennet said "is a warrior's calling card. Only it does not say 'Good afternoon. I have come for tea and crumpets.' It says 'Death has come for you! Flee or be killed where you stand!

  Steve Hockensmith

  Warrior, Tea, Battle

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• I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

  Jane Austen

  Forgiveness, Pride, Forgiving

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.16

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• You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Pride, Prejudice

  "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austin (Chapter 34), January 28, 1813.

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• Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Faces, Enough

  "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 16, 1813.

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• What are men to rocks and mountains?

  Jane Austen

  Men, Rocks, Deep Thought

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.27.

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• Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

  Jane Austen

  Cousin, Expectations, Absurd

  Huw Thomas, Jane Austen (2014). “Exploring Pride and Prejudice (Includes Jane Austen's Original Novel): A Journey through the 1995 TV Series Starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle”, p.54, BookBaby

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• And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

  Jane Austen

  Hopeless, Seems, Occasions

  Jane Austen “Pride and Prejudice”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'

  Maureen Dowd

  Wall, Character, Blue

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• Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

  Jane Austen

  Taken, Wife, Want

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.5, FV Éditions

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