Mrs. Bennet

Character in Pride and Prejudice From: Pride and Prejudice

Elizabeth's anxious mother; provides comic relief with absurd declarations

25 quotes

"A woman must have a means of getting about if she is to visit her relations"
Family
"I am not afraid of you"
Courage
"Lord! how I wish I could see her married to Mr. Collins"
Hope
"It ought not to be so; for every respect in which it can concern my daughter to change herself, I am sure she would be very willing to do it."
Family
"To be sure, it is mean and disagreeable."
Humor
"Things are now in such a melancholy way."
"How long has it been that we have wished for such an event?"
Happiness
"I declare we must be the most unlucky creatures that ever existed."
Humor
"Nobody can tell what I suffer!"
Family
"If you were as much concerned as I am, you would not think of staying here a week."
"My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts. Let us hope for the best."
Hope
"It is always the women who have to bear the consequences of men's mistakes."
Justice
"My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty."
Beauty
"Engagement with Mr. Darcy is a most desirable event."
Success
"Nothing is so good as news in this barren country."
Life
"You know I have always wanted nothing but your happiness."
Family
"Do not you feel a great inclination, my dear, to establish a new social custom?"
Humor
"Indeed, Mr. Bennet, you perplex me very much."
Relationships
"Do not you feel a great inclination, my dear, to take one of the outlandish young men?"
Humor
"My dear Mr. Bennet, you must come in and hear what William is saying."
Family
"Engaged to Mr. Darcy! My sweetest Lizzy, how rich and how great you will be!"
Happiness
"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be very clever indeed."
Money
"My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now."
Beauty
"How barbarously we are treated on these occasions!"
"I am all astonishment at such a circumstance!"