BENNET'S in Classic Quotes

1  Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14

2  Mrs. Bennet's schemes for this day were ineffectual.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 55

3  The morrow produced no abatement of Mrs. Bennet's ill-humour or ill health.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21

4  Mrs. Bennet's best comfort was that Mr. Bingley must be down again in the summer.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24

5  In a few days Mr. Bingley returned Mr. Bennet's visit, and sat about ten minutes with him in his library.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

6  The rest of the evening was spent in conjecturing how soon he would return Mr. Bennet's visit, and determining when they should ask him to dinner.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2

7  When you have killed all your own birds, Mr. Bingley," said her mother, "I beg you will come here, and shoot as many as you please on Mr. Bennet's manor.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 53

8  Bingley of course returned with him to dinner; and in the evening Mrs. Bennet's invention was again at work to get every body away from him and her daughter.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 55

9  Miss Bennet's lovely face confirmed his views, and established all his strictest notions of what was due to seniority; and for the first evening she was his settled choice.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15

10  They were soon gone again, rising from their seats with an activity which took their brother by surprise, and hurrying off as if eager to escape from Mrs. Bennet's civilities.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17

11  Miss Bennet's astonishment was soon lessened by the strong sisterly partiality which made any admiration of Elizabeth appear perfectly natural; and all surprise was shortly lost in other feelings.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40

12  He scarcely needed an invitation to stay supper; and before he went away, an engagement was formed, chiefly through his own and Mrs. Bennet's means, for his coming next morning to shoot with her husband.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 55

13  To Mr. Bennet's acknowledgments he briefly replied, with assurance of his eagerness to promote the welfare of any of his family; and concluded with entreaties that the subject might never be mentioned to him again.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50

14  The hall, the dining-room, and all its furniture, were examined and praised; and his commendation of everything would have touched Mrs. Bennet's heart, but for the mortifying supposition of his viewing it all as his own future property.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13

15  Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the goodwill of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters not worth speaking to, a wish of being better acquainted with them was expressed towards the two eldest.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

16  Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

17  Lady Lucas could not be insensible of triumph on being able to retort on Mrs. Bennet the comfort of having a daughter well married; and she called at Longbourn rather oftener than usual to say how happy she was, though Mrs. Bennet's sour looks and ill-natured remarks might have been enough to drive happiness away.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23