Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Edmund Gwenn: Mr. Bennet

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• Mr. Bennet : An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. 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 : Look at them! Five of them without dowries. What's to become of them?

  Mr. Bennet : Yes, what's to become of the wretched creatures? Perhaps we should have drowned some of them at birth.

• Mr. Bennet : Well, we're hoping Elizabeth can manage to catch a cold of her own and stay long enough to get engaged to Mr. Darcy. Then, if a good snowstorm could be arranged, we'd send Kitty over. But if a young man should happen to be in the house - a young man who likes singing, of course, who can discuss philosophy - Mary could go. Then, if a dashing young soldier in a handsome uniform should appear for Lydia, everything would be perfect, my dear.

• Mary Bennet : Did you tell him you had five daughters, Papa?

  Mr. Bennet : Well, I told him if he ran into five of the silliest girls in England, they would be my daughters!

• Lydia Bennet : Has anybody heard how Jane is this morning?

  Mrs. Bennet : Eh, Mr. Bingley sent a note over by his groom. She's much better. Such a happy idea of mine sending her off in the rain.

  Mr. Bennet : Yes, but to Jane must go all the credit for having caught the cold, my dear.

• 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.

• Elizabeth Bennet : What does it matter where we go? As long as we go together!

  Jane Bennet : Yes, Mama. We'll make a little world of our own.

  Mr. Bennet : Yes! A Bennet Utopia, my dear! A domestic paradise, where nobody shall ever talk more than is strictly necessary.