Pride and Prejudice quotes: Mr Bennet

'respect, esteem and confidence'

What Mr Bennet lost when marrying Mrs Bennet

'so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice'

Mr Bennet’s personality

'your portion is unhappily so small'

Mr Collins to Lizzy about her fortune due to Mr Bennet

'Wherever you and Jane are known, you must be respected and valued [you will not be disadvantaged by having] three very silly sisters'

Mr Bennet about Jane and Lizzy’s sisters and how they wont suffer

'as absurd as he has hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment'

Mr Bennet about Mr Collins

‘Poor little Lizzy’

Mr Bennet reduces Lizzy to a child

‘squeamish youths’

Mr Bennet belittles Lizzy’s suitors

‘excessive distress’

what Mr Bennet feels when he hears about Lydia’s elopement

'has been my own doing, and I ought to feel it’

Mr Bennet’s realisation about his part in Lydia’s elopement

'never been blind to the impropriety of her father's behaviour as a husband'

Lizzy on Mr Bennets behaviour as a husband

‘two of the silliest girls in the country’

Kitty and Lydia description

‘Little Lizzy’

childish view of Lizzy

‘silly and ignorant’

His views on children (including Lizzy)