Pride and Prejudice - Parents

Mr Bennet - neglectful and ineffectual

"you must be two of the silliest girls in the country"

"Those who chose to be idle, certainly might"

Mrs Bennet - monomaniac and encouraging silly behaviour

"The business of her life was to get her daughters married"

"If one could but go to Brighton"

Mrs Gardiner - loving and thoughtful

"Poor Jane! I am sorry for her"

"But he paid her not the smallest attention"

Mr. Gardiner - socially intellectual and responsible

"sensible, gentlemanlike man, greatly superior to his sister"

"every sentence of her uncle, which marked his intelligence"

"Generous, good man"

Mr Darcy - protective and responsible

"offending a brother whom she almost looked up to as a father"

"you may imagine what I felt and how I acted"