Mr. Bennet

Character in Pride and Prejudice From: Pride and Prejudice

Elizabeth's father; sardonic observer of family and society

103 quotes

"Nobody minds anything that happens in the kitchen."
"What shall you do with yourself when you are married?"
"I do not believe Mr. Darcy would have you if he could."
"This is no time for such recriminations."
"There is a study in which I have already proved my understanding."
"Do not you feel a great inclination, Mrs. Bennet, to enter this business?"
"It is very much a gentleman's business to propose to a lady."
"Let us be thankful that you are preserved from a worse alternative."
"A woman may lose her way with a map as easily as without one."
"You have delighted us long enough."
Humor
"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth."
"You have delighted us long enough."
Humor
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"
Humor
"Better to be without sense than to misapply it as you do."
Wisdom
"Nobody can blame you for refusing a man who is lame."
Humor
"You have delighted us long enough."
Humor
"Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this useful lesson."
Wisdom
"I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, under any circumstances."
Family
"You have delighted us long enough."
Humor
"Where is my book? I laid it down somewhere."
Humor
"A stubbornness in his character, perhaps, is his greatest defect."
"You shall not defend her, though it is amiable in you to attempt it."
Family
"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents."
Family
"Perhaps it is better to be silent than to be ridiculous."
Wisdom
"Business, you see, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does."
Friendship
"You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of prudence."
Wisdom
"Better to have fought and lost, than never to have fought at all."
Courage
"You have delighted us long enough."
Humor
"Everybody has a right to be ridiculous sometimes."
Humor
"The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it."
Philosophy