Quotes About Mrs. Bennet

As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'

Mrs. Bennet was restored to her usual querulous serenity.

She [Mrs. Bennet] was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.

The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished; that of Mrs. Bennet perhaps surpassing the rest; though, when the first tumult of joy was over, she began to declare that it was what she had expected all the while.