Donald Sutherland credited as playing...
Mr. Bennet
- 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.
- [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.
- 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.
- 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. 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: [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?
- 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. Bennet: Poor Jane. Still, a girl likes to be crossed in love now and then. It gives her something to think of... and a sort of distinction amongst her companions.
- Mr. Bennet: [upon finding a very upset Mary] Mary, my dear Mary.
- [hugs her]
- Mr. Bennet: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
- Mary Bennet: [sobbing] I've been practicing all week.
- Mr. Bennet: I know, my dear.
- Mary Bennet: [sobbing] I hate balls!
- Mr. Bennet: There's no need. I already have.
- Mrs. Bennet: Have? Oh Mr Bennet! How can you tease me so? Have you no compassion for my poor nerves?
- Mr. Bennet: Oh you mistake me, my dear. I have the highest respect for them. They've been my constant companions these twenty years.
- Mrs. Bennet: Do you not want to know who has taken it?
- Mr. Bennet: As you wish to tell me, my dear, I doubt I have any choice in the matter.
- Mr. Collins: Mrs. Bennet I was hoping, if it would not trouble you, that I might solicit a private audience with Miss Elizabeth in the course of the morning.
- Mrs. Bennet: Oh, yes. Certainly. Lizzy will be very happy indeed. Everyone, out. Mr. Collins would like a private audience with your sister.
- Elizabeth Bennet: No, no, wait, please. I beg you. Mr. Collins can have nothing to say to me that anybody need not hear.
- Mrs. Bennet: No nonsense, Lizzy. I desire you will stay where you are. Everyone else to the drawing room. Mr. Bennet?
- Mr. Bennet: But...
- Mrs. Bennet: Now.
- Mrs. Bennet: ...and then he danced the third with Miss Lucas.
- Mr. Bennet: We were all there, dear.
- Mrs. Bennet: Oh, poor thing. It is a shame she's not more handsome. There's a spinster in the making and no mistake. The fourth with a Miss King, of little standing... and the fifth again with Jane.
- Mr. Bennet: If he'd had any compassion for me, he would have sprained his ankle in the first set.
- Kitty Bennet: Papa!
- Mrs. Bennet: Is he amiable?
- Mary Bennet: Who?
- Kitty Bennet: Is he handsome?
- Mary Bennet: Who?
- Lydia Bennet: He's sure to be handsome.
- Elizabeth Bennet: For five thousand a year, it would not matter if he's got warts and a leer.
- Mary Bennet: Who's got warts?
- Mr. Bennet: I'll give my heartiest consent to his marrying whichever of the girls he chooses.
- Lydia Bennet: So will he come to the ball tomorrow, Papa?
- Mr. Bennet: I believe so.
- Mr. Bennet: How can that possibly affect them?
- Mrs. Bennet: Oh Mr. Bennet, how can you be so tiresome? You know he must marry one of them!
- Mr. Bennet: Ah, so that is his desire in settling here.
- Mrs. Bennet: You must go and visit him at once!
- Mr. Bennet: Good heavens. People.
- Mrs. Bennet: For we may not visit if you do not, as you well know, Mr. Bennet!