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Quotes from Pride and Prejudice (1940)

14 quotes
Edmund Gwenn
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.
- Edmund Gwenn (as Mr. Bennet) in Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Greer Garson
Elizabeth Bennet: I tremble and obey.
- Greer Garson (as Elizabeth Bennet) in Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Greer Garson
Elizabeth Bennet: Oh Mr. Darcy, Miss Bingley here is eager for her lesson. I hope you will enjoy it, Miss Bingley, and that you will learn to direct your darts with greater accuracy.
- Greer Garson (as Elizabeth Bennet) in Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Greer Garson
Elizabeth Bennett: How clever of you, Miss Bingley, to know something of which you are ignorant.
- Greer Garson (as Elizabeth Bennet) in Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Greer Garson
Elizabeth Bennett: Oh, if you want to be really refined, you have to be dead. There's no one as dignified as a mummy
- Greer Garson (as Elizabeth Bennet) in Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Edmund Gwenn
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.
- Edmund Gwenn (as Mr. Bennet) in Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Greer Garson
Mr. Darcy: I have made the mistake of being honest with you.
Elizabeth Bennet: Honesty is a greatly overrated virtue. Silence in this case would have been more agreeable.
- Greer Garson (as Elizabeth Bennet) in Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Laurence Olivier
Mr. Darcy: I rather admired what you did this afternoon Miss Elizabeth. Your resentment of what you believe to be an injustice showed courage and loyalty. I could wish i might possess a friend who would defend me as ably as Mr. Wickham was defended today.
Elizabeth Bennett: At this moment it's difficult to believe that you're so proud.
Mr. Darcy: At this moment it's difficult to believe that you're so prejudiced.
- Laurence Olivier (as Mr. Darcy) in Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Laurence Olivier
Mr. Darcy: Yes, she looks tolerable enough, but I am in no humor tonight to give consequence to the middle classes at play.
- Laurence Olivier (as Mr. Darcy) in Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Laurence Olivier
Mr. Darcy: You must allow me to tell you how much I admire and love you.
- Laurence Olivier (as Mr. Darcy) in Pride and Prejudice (1940)