The Best Caroline Bingley Quotes

Caroline: [Elizabeth enters the room, Darcy stands. Caroline is appalled] Good Lord, Miss Elizabeth. Did you walk here?
Elizabeth: I did.
[long pause]
Elizabeth: I'm so sorry. How is my sister?
Mr. Darcy: She's upstairs.
Elizabeth: [another pause; she smiles and curtseys] Thank you.
[she leaves the room]
Caroline: My goodness, did you see her hem? Six inches deep in mud. She looked positively mediaeval.

Caroline: 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: It's refreshing, is it not after sitting so long in one attitude?
Elizabeth: And it is a small kind of accomplishment, I suppose.
Caroline: Will you not join us, Mr. Darcy?
Mr. Darcy: You can only have two motives, Caroline and I would interfere with either.
Caroline: What can he mean?
Elizabeth: Our surest way of disappointing him will be to ask him nothing about it.
Caroline: 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: Are you too proud Mr. Darcy? And would you consider pride a fault or a virtue?
Mr. Darcy: That I couldn't say.
Elizabeth: 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: Oh, dear, I cannot tease you about that. What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
Caroline: A family trait, I think.