Lines Flashcards
Learn lines for Pride and Prejudice
Mrs Bennet
“…- and Mr Bennet: HE. IS. …..SINGLE!!!
coughs
Mr Bennet
“How can it possibly affect them, my dear?”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
Mrs Bennet
“, nor so good humoured as Lydia-“
“-Mamma?!”
Mrs Bennet
“VERY PROMISING gentleman who-“
coughs
Mrs Bennet
“Stop that, Mary you’ll tear my nerves to pieces!”
“I do not cough for my own amusement!”
Mr Bennet
“I met the gentleman yesterday”
“Is he a scholar? Does he play?”
at the same time as Lydia and Kitty
Lydia
“Why shouldn’t I catch him?”
Kitty
“Or me!”
“Or me!”
Mrs Bennet
“Do stand straight Lizzy, no man likes a hunchback. This may be your last chance!”
shocks her
Mrs Bennet
“Oh-God-Mary-maybe just… step back a little-“
This dress itches
Mrs Bennet
“YOOHOO, MRS LONG- HOW IS YOUR BOY WITH THE POX AND IS HE HERE TONIGHT”
Ahhh…
Charlotte
“Jane, Lizzy!”
shocks her
Charlotte
“Mary.”
Nnngh…
Mr Bennet
“My dear, we should really leave. Mary is worse than a terrier-“
Rrrragh
Mrs Bennet
“Such a waste of ten thousand pounds”
“PRIDE. Pride. Vanity and pride are different. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us… PRIDE.”
Mr Bennet
“Leave me out of it”
“We hear often of sickness from love; perhaps this is a case of love from- (cough cough cough)- sickness”
Mrs Bennet
“Lydia-“
“Mamma.”
Lydia
“We have-we have such a surprise for-we have-“
“MAMMA, WE HAVE-“
same time as Mrs. Bennet saying “Lydia, you’ll TEAR MY NERVES TO PIECES-“
Lydia
“-GAME OVER MARY and I WIN”
“…tonight’s the night.”
Lydia
“I was chaperoned! Kitty and Mary were with me, and Lord knows Mary’s a stumbling block before the blind”
coughs “trollop”
Lydia
“Is he a Redcoat, Pappa?”
Mr Bennet
“A clergyman.”
“Ohhhhhhh” very interested
Charlotte
“I see Jane is already spoken for - ? And then there were four in the line”
“Five” shocks her
Mrs Bennet
“…And all my works adds up to nothing, and we! Shall! Go! To! RUIN!”
“Mamma-“ at the same time as all the other Bennet sisters
Lizzy
“Pappa!”
shocks them
Jane
“Mary!”
“Lydia- Kitty and Mr- sped ahead- left me behind” then collapses
