“You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it”
Mr. Bennet Chapter 1
Bennet family quotes
Bennet family quotes from Longbourn's loudest rooms
The Bennets are not one voice. They are nerves, wit, patience, vanity, silence, music, and escape all living under the same roof.
The ones with social teeth
Longbourn begins with a marriage that has become a performance: his irony, her nerves, and five daughters caught between them.
“If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield”
Mrs. Bennet Chapter 3
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”
Mr. Bennet Chapter 57
“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
Mrs. Bennet Chapter 20
Lines that reveal the speaker
The Bennet sisters share a house, not a temperament. Austen gives each of them a different way of asking the world to notice her.
“I dearly love a laugh.”
Elizabeth Bennet Chapter 11
“I must think your language too strong in speaking of both”
Jane Bennet Chapter 24
“I should infinitely prefer a book.”
Mary Bennet Chapter 6
“And we mean to treat you all”
Lydia Bennet Chapter 39
When the story changes temperature
The family comedy is never only comedy. Under pressure, Longbourn shows tenderness, blindness, panic, and the cost of never having planned ahead.
“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
Elizabeth Bennet Chapter 36
“Then it is as I always hoped”
Jane Bennet Chapter 49
“I leave it to yourself to determine”
Mr. Bennet Chapter 23
“That is all very proper and civil, I am sure”
Mrs. Bennet Chapter 14
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Follow one voice closely, or stay inside Longbourn and listen to the whole Bennet family at once.
Elizabeth Bennet quotes
Wit, stubbornness, self-correction, and the moments when Lizzy sees more than she meant to.
Mary Bennet quotes
Moral philosophy, wounded pride, and the lines that make Mary more than the family joke.
Mr. Darcy quotes
The insult, the proposal, the apology, and every sentence where Darcy nearly explains himself.
Bennet family quotes
Longbourn in miniature: nerves, irony, kindness, vanity, and five sisters trying to be heard.
Questions people ask
Who counts as the Bennet family in Pride and Prejudice?
The Bennet household includes Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, and their five daughters: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia.
Why collect Bennet family quotes together?
The family scenes are where Austen makes private pressure public: money, marriage, embarrassment, wit, affection, and neglect all speak at once.
Are these Bennet family quotes from the novel?
Yes. These lines come from Jane Austen's public-domain novel Pride and Prejudice, with speakers and chapters included for context.