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We are all fools in love.

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What are men compared to rocks and mountains?

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He liked me better, and Darcy couldn't stand it.

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[to Jane, about to propose to her] First, I must tell you I've been the most unmitigated and comprehensive ass.

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Maybe it's because I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

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Elizabeth Bennet: Do you dance, Mr. Darcy? Mr. Darcy: Not if I can help it.

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Caroline Bingley: Miss Elizabeth, let us take a turn about the room. Caroline Bingley: It's refreshing, is it not after sitting so long in one attitude? Elizabeth Bennet: And it is a small kind of accomplishment, I suppose. Caroline Bingley: Will you not join us, Mr. Darcy? Mr. Darcy: You can only have two motives, Caroline and I would interfere with either. Caroline Bingley: What can he mean? Elizabeth Bennet: Our surest way of disappointing him will be to ask him nothing about it. Caroline Bingley: But do tell us, Mr. Darcy. Mr. Darcy: Either you are in each other's confidence and have secret affairs to discuss, or you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage by walking. If the first, I should get in your way. If the second, I can admire you much better from here.

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Mr. Darcy: May I have the next dance, Miss Elizabeth? Elizabeth Bennet: You may.

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Elizabeth Bennet: Did I just agree to dance with Mr. Darcy? Charlotte Lucas: I daresay you will find him to be very amiable. Elizabeth Bennet: That would be most inconvenient since I have sworn to loathe him for all eternity.

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I love this dance.

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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.

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Mr. Darcy: I, do not have the talent of conversing easily with people I have never met before. Elizabeth Bennet: Perhaps you should take your aunt's advice and practice?

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Mr. Darcy: No, believe me, I didn't mean-- Elizabeth Bennet: If I was uncivil, then that is some excuse. But I have other reasons, you know I have. Mr. Darcy: What reasons? Elizabeth Bennet: Do you think anything might tempt me to accept the man who has ruined, perhaps forever, the happiness of a most beloved sister? Do you deny that you separated a young couple who loved each other, exposing your friend to the world for caprice and my sister to derision for disappointed hopes, involving them both in misery of the acutest kind? Mr. Darcy: I do not deny it. Elizabeth Bennet: How could you do it? Mr. Darcy: Because I believed your sister to be indifferent to him. Elizabeth Bennet: Indifferent? Mr. Darcy: I watched them most carefully and realized his attachment was deeper than hers. Elizabeth Bennet: That's because she's shy! Mr. Darcy: Bingley, too, is modest and was persuaded she didn't feel strongly for him-- Elizabeth Bennet: Because you suggested it! Mr. Darcy: I did it for his own

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Elizabeth Bennet: And what a beautiful pianoforte! Georgiana Darcy: My brother gave it to me. He shouldn't have-- Mr. Darcy: Yes, I should've. Georgiana Darcy: Oh, very well, then. Mr. Darcy: Easily persuaded, is she not? Elizabeth Bennet: Your unfortunate brother once had to put up with my playing for a whole evening. Georgiana Darcy: [looking astonished] But he says you play so well! Elizabeth Bennet: Then he has perjured himself most profoundly. Mr. Darcy: No, I said "played quite well." Elizabeth Bennet: Oh, "quite well" is not "very well." I'm satisfied.

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Lady Catherine:: You can be at no loss, Miss Bennet to understand why I am here. Elizabeth Bennet:: Indeed you are mistaken. I cannot account for this honour at all. Lady Catherine:: I warn you, I am not to be trifled with. A report of most alarming nature has reached me. That you intend to be united with my nephew, Mr Darcy. I know this to be a scandalous falsehood. Though not wishing to injure him by supposing it possible, I instantly set off to make my sentiments known. Elizabeth Bennet:: If you believed it impossible, I wonder you took the trouble of coming so far. Lady Catherine:: To hear it contradicted, Miss Bennet. Elizabeth Bennet:: Your coming will be rather a confirmation surely if indeed such a report exists. Lady Catherine:: lf? You then pretend to be ignorant of it? Has it not been industriously circulated by yourself? Elizabeth Bennet:: I have never heard of it. Lady Catherine:: And can you declare there is no foundation for it? Elizabeth Bennet:: I do not pretend to pos

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Mr. Bennet:: Shut the door, please, Elizabeth. 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 other objection than your belief in my indifference? Mr. Bennet:: None at all. We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of fellow. But this would be nothing if you really liked him. Elizabeth Bennet:: I do like him. Mr. Bennet:: Well... Elizabeth Bennet:: I love him. He's not proud. I was wrong. I was entirely wrong about him. You don't know him, Papa. If I told you what he was really like, what he's done... Mr. Bennet:: What has he done?

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Mr. Bennet:: Good Lord. I must pay him back. Elizabeth Bennet:: No. You mustn't tell anyone. He wouldn't want it. We misjudged him, Papa. Me more than anyone in every way. Not just in this matter. I've been nonsensical. But he's been a fool about, about Jane, about so many other things. But then, so have I. You see, he and I are...he and I are so similar. We're both so stubborn. Papa, I... Mr. Bennet:: [smiling] You really do love him, don't you? Elizabeth Bennet:: Very much. Mr. Bennet:: I cannot believe that anyone can deserve you. But it seems I am overruled. So I heartily give my consent.[Elizabeth hugs him] I could not have parted with you, my Lizzie, to anyone less worthy. Elizabeth Bennet:: [kisses his forehead] Thank you. [Elizabeth leaves the room] Mr. Bennet:: If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, for heaven's sake, send them in. I'm quite at my leisure.

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Mr. Darcy: How are you this evening, my dear? Elizabeth Bennet: Very well. Only I wish you would not call me "my dear". Mr. Darcy: Why? Elizabeth Bennet: Because it's what my father always called my mother when he's cross about something. Mr. Darcy: What endearments am I allowed? Elizabeth Bennet: Well let me think..."Lizzy" for everyday, "My Pearl" for Sundays, and..."Goddess Divine", but only on very special occasions. Mr. Darcy: [Chuckles] And...what should I call you when I'm cross? "Mrs. Darcy"? Elizabeth Bennet: [Smiling] No! No. You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, perfectly, and incandescently happy. Mr. Darcy: [chuckles] How are you this evening... Mrs. Darcy? [kisses her forehead] Mr. Darcy: Mrs. Darcy [kisses her left cheek] Mr. Darcy: Mrs. Darcy [kisses her nose] Mr. Darcy: Mrs. Darcy [kisses her right cheek] Mr. Darcy: Mrs. Darcy [they kiss]