Pride and Prejudice (TV Mini Series)

Episode 1 (1995)

Julia Sawalha: Lydia Bennet

Quotes 

• Elizabeth Bennet : For a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

  Mrs. Bennet : Yes, he must indeed! And who better than one of our five girls?

  Lydia Bennet : What a fine joke if he were to choose me!

  Kitty Bennet : Or me!

  [Lydia and Kitty laugh] 

  Jane Bennet : [Reprimanding]  Lydia!

• [Elizabeth notices that Darcy is watching her, and looks for a new subject of conversation with Colonel Forster] 

  Elizabeth Bennet : Are you in Meryton to subdue the discontented populace, sir, or do you defend Hertfordshire against the French?

  Col. Forster : Neither, ma'am, I trust. We hope to winter very peacefully at Meryton. My soldiers are in great need of training, and my officers, they have a great need of society.

  Elizabeth Bennet : Then, as soon as you are settled, I hope you will give a ball.

  Mrs Forster : Oh, yes, my dear, do!

  Col. Forster : You think a ball would be well received?

  Lydia Bennet : A ball? Who's giving a ball? I long for a ball!