Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Listen up, fives, a ten is speaking.
Illustration by Hugh Thomson.
Quote from 30 Rock.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: [shoving people out of the way] Out of my way, extras!
Mr. Darcy: Stop calling people extras just because you don’t know them!
Elizabeth Bennet: I should also warn you guys that my mother's a little bit perky.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Wait, *you* think she's perky?
Elizabeth Bennet: Well, she doesn't have my dark side. I got that from my father.
Mr. Collins: Good morning, Lady Catherine.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: When people get too chummy with me, I like to call them by the wrong name so they know I don’t really care about them.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: I do love it when I am right. Which is fortunate, since I so often am.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Would you say you’re independent?
Mr. Bingley: [looks at Mr. Darcy]
Mr. Darcy: [nods]
Mr. Bingley: I’d say so, yes.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: They know from experience that I’m likely to be right.
Mr. Darcy: Stop your addiction to being right!
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Good advice for everyone who isn't me.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: If you need anything at all just ask. Someone else.
[during Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s visit to Longbourn]
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Uh, excuse me! Who's in charge here?
Mr. Bennet: Well, that's usually whoever yells the loudest.
[during Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s visit to Longbourn]
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: I just decided I don’t like you.
Elizabeth Bennet: I just decided I don’t care.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Me, I’m a woman of action. You have to act first and apologize later. Like I have learned to do.
Mr. Darcy: You never apologize.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: I would if I had ever been wrong.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Listen up, fives, a ten is speaking.
[during Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s visit to Longbourn]
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Thank you for agreeing to see me.
Elizabeth Bennet: I didn’t. You just walked in and started talking.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Look, I don’t have time for a history lesson.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: What is a weekend?
Mrs. Bennet: You know, I raised five fully functional daughters.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh: You have five daughters I don't know about?