Mr. Bingley Quotes in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

Mr. Bingley: [while at the ball] Darcy, you must dance.

Mr. Darcy: [referring to Jane Bennett] You're dancing with the only handsome girl here.

Mr. Bingley: [referring to Elizabeth Bennett] One of her sisters is also very pretty dare I say. Very agreeable.

Mr. Darcy: [looks over at Elizabeth] Well, she's tolerable. But...

Mr. Bingley: Tolerable?

Mr. Darcy: Yes, tolerable. But not handsome enough tempt me. Nor any other man here apparently.

Mr. Bingley: [referring to Jane] She's the most beautiful creature I ever beheld.

Mr. Bingley: I hate to see you just standing there. You must dance.

Mr. Darcy: Oh, you know I detest it when I'm not acquainted with my partner.

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.

Mr. Bingley: [overheard by Charlotte and Elizabeth] But her sister Elizabeth is very agreeable.

Mr. Darcy: Thoroughly tolerable, I dare say, but not handsome enough to tempt *me*. You'd better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles. You're wasting your time with me.

[the two men depart]

Charlotte Lucas: Count your blessings, Lizzy. If he liked you, you'd have to talk to him.

Elizabeth Bennet: Precisely. As it is I wouldn't dance with him for all of Darbyshire, let alone the miserable half.

Mr. Bingley: [Practicing proposing, with Mr. Darcy as Jane] Miss Bennett.

Mr. Darcy: [Bows] Mr. Bingley.

Mr. Bingley: I've never seen so many pretty girls in my life!

Mr. Darcy: You are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room.

Mr. Bingley: She is the most beautiful creature I have ever beheld. But her sister Elizabeth is very agreeable.

Mr. Darcy: Thoroughly tolerable, I daresay, but not handsome enough to tempt me. You'd better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles. You're wasting your time with me.

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

Mr. Bingley: [Flustered after visiting with the Bennett's had not gone as hoped] She was going to say "sit down", and...

Mr. Bingley: Your friend, Miss Lucas, is a most amusing young woman.

Elizabeth Bennet: Oh, yes, I adore her!

Mrs. Bennet: It is a pity she's not more handsome.

Elizabeth Bennet: Mama!

Mrs. Bennet: Oh, but Lizzie would never admit that she's plain. Of course, it's my Jane that's considered the beauty of the county.

Jane Bennet: No, Mama, please...

Mrs. Bennet: When she was only fifteen there was a gentleman that was so much in love with her that I was sure he would make her an offer. However, he did write her some very pretty verses.

Jane Bennet: How do you like it here in Hertfordshire, Mr. Bingley?

Mr. Bingley: Very much.

Elizabeth Bennet: The library at Netherfield, I've heard, is one of the finest in the country.

Mr. Bingley: Yes, fills me with guilt. Not a very good reader, you see. Prefer being out of doors. Oh, I mean I can read, of course. And I'm not suggesting you can't read out of doors, of course. Um...

Jane Bennet: I wish I read more but there always seems to be so many other things to do.

Mr. Bingley: Yes, that's exactly what I meant!

Mr. Bingley: This is a disaster isn't it!

Sir William Lucas: Mr. Bingley, my eldest daughter you know. Mrs. Bennet, Miss Jane Bennet, Elizabeth, and Miss Mary Bennet.

Mrs. Bennet: It is a pleasure. I have two others, but they are already dancing.

Mr. Bingley: I'm delighted to make your acquaintance.

Sir William Lucas: And may I introduce Mr. Darcy of Pemberley and Derbyshire.