MR. BENNET in Classic Quotes

1  They found Mr. Bennet still up.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

2  Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

3  Mr. Bennet could not have chosen better.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14

4  Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14

5  Mr. Bennet protested against any description of finery.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

6  Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2

7  My dear Mr. Bennet, you must not expect such girls to have the sense of their father and mother.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

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

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

9  "At four o'clock, therefore, we may expect this peace-making gentleman," said Mr. Bennet, as he folded up the letter.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13

10  You judge very properly," said Mr. Bennet, "and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14

11  It certainly is a most iniquitous affair," said Mr. Bennet, "and nothing can clear Mr. Collins from the guilt of inheriting Longbourn.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13

12  "Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you choose," said Mr. Bennet; and, as he spoke, he left the room, fatigued with the raptures of his wife.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2

13  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.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2

14  Mr. Bennet indeed said little; but the ladies were ready enough to talk, and Mr. Collins seemed neither in need of encouragement, nor inclined to be silent himself.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13

15  Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

16  During dinner, Mr. Bennet scarcely spoke at all; but when the servants were withdrawn, he thought it time to have some conversation with his guest, and therefore started a subject in which he expected him to shine, by observing that he seemed very fortunate in his patroness.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14

17  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.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7