Caroline Bingley Quotes in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

Mr. Bingley: You prefer reading to cards?

Elizabeth Bennet: I prefer a great many things to cards.

Caroline Bingley: [In Japanese] One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

[Everyone laughs]

Elizabeth Bennet: I don't speak Japanese.

Caroline Bingley: No, of course. You didn't train in Japan. China, was it?

Elizabeth Bennet: A Shaolin temple in Henan province. It was there that I learned to endure all manner of discomfort.

Caroline Bingley: May I inquire as to the nature of this discomfort?

Elizabeth Bennet: I'd much rather give you a demonstration.

Caroline Bingley: She is one of those young ladies who seeks to recommend herself by undervaluing her own sex.

Caroline Bingley: Miss Elizabeth, let us take a turn about the room.

[Caroline takes Lizzy's arm in hers, and they walk gracefully in a circle around 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.

Elizabeth Bennet: Are you too proud Mr. Darcy? And would you consider pride a fault or a virtue?

Mr. Darcy: That I couldn't say.

Elizabeth Bennet: Because we're doing our best to find a fault in you.

Mr. Darcy: Maybe it's that 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.

Elizabeth Bennet: Oh, dear, I cannot tease you about that. What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

Caroline Bingley: A family trait, I think.

Caroline Bingley: [Elizabeth enters the room, Darcy stands. Caroline is appalled] Good Lord, Miss Elizabeth. Did you walk here?

Elizabeth Bennet: I did.

[long pause]

Elizabeth Bennet: I'm so sorry. How is my sister?

Mr. Darcy: She's upstairs.

Elizabeth Bennet: [another pause; she smiles and curtseys] Thank you.

[she leaves the room]

Caroline Bingley: My goodness, did you see her hem? Six inches deep in mud. She looked positively mediaeval.

Caroline Bingley: Charles. You cannot be serious.

Netherfield Butler: A Mrs. Bennet, a Miss Bennet, a Miss Bennet and a Miss Bennet, sir.

Caroline Bingley: Oh for heaven's sake, are we to receive every Bennet in the country?

Caroline Bingley: I can't help thinking that at some point someone is going to produce a piglet and we'll all have to chase it.

Caroline Bingley: We are a long way from Grover's Square, are we not, Mr. Darcy?

Caroline Bingley: ...and her sisters Jane and Elizabeth were seen running down Market Street in an attempt to escape their disgrace. Isn't that exquisitely funny, Mr. Darcy?

Mr. Darcy: Exquisitely. Just think how you would roar with laughter if it happened to yourself.

Caroline Bingley: [observing the Bennet family at the party at Netherfield] Entertaining the rustics is not as difficult as I feared. Any simple, childish game seems to amuse them excessively.