Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.”
- Source
- Pride and Prejudice
- Date
- 1813
- Local voice
- Fictional character · Mr. Bennet
Meaning of “I have a high respect for your nerves.…”
Mr. Bennet turns Mrs. Bennet’s recurring complaint into dry affection, using understatement to expose a long-established family pattern.
Where does it come from?
Pride and Prejudice, Volume 1, Chapter 1; Mr. Bennet responds to his wife’s complaint about her nerves.
Why the local voice matters
Mr. Bennet says this to Mrs. Bennet in the opening chapter of Pride and Prejudice; the remark is deliberately ironic.
