This specific Pride & Prejudice quote has a strong basis in two big things that happened earlier in the movie. At the big party, Jane dances with others and doesn't pay Mr. Bingley much attention.

“When all Pride and Prejudice, all Interests and Designs, being submitted to the Honour of God, and the Discharge of our Duty,” an anonymous clergyman wrote in 1734, “the Holy Scriptures shall again ...

From passionate love confessions to witty banter, Joe Wright's adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice features plenty ...

Their lives are turned upside down when wealthy young Mr. Bingley (Simon Woods) and his best friend, Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen), arrive in their neighborhood.

They meet Bingley, his sisters and friend Darcy at a ball, where Bingley is attracted to Jane but Darcy considers the entire gathering beneath him.

Under the bonnet: Jane (Perry Mooney) and Bingley (William Carseldine ... Still, the sunny feminism of Pride and Prejudice speaks loud and clear 222 years later, no matter how many pratfalls ...

Austen's independent women Early on in“Pride and Prejudice,” the conceited Caroline Bingley snipes that Elizabeth Bennet shows“an abominable sort of conceited independence.” Later ...