MRS. COLLINS in Classic Quotes

1  I told Mrs. Collins so before you came.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 37

2  Mrs. Collins knew not what to make of him.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 32

3  Mrs. Collins, you must send a servant with them.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 37

4  You must send John with the young ladies, Mrs. Collins.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 37

5  Mrs. Collins welcomed her friend with the liveliest pleasure, and Elizabeth was more and more satisfied with coming when she found herself so affectionately received.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28

6  Colonel Fitzwilliam seemed really glad to see them; anything was a welcome relief to him at Rosings; and Mrs. Collins's pretty friend had moreover caught his fancy very much.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31

7  When Lady Catherine and her daughter had played as long as they chose, the tables were broken up, the carriage was offered to Mrs. Collins, gratefully accepted and immediately ordered.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29

8  Lady Catherine, Sir William, and Mr. and Mrs. Collins sat down to quadrille; and as Miss de Bourgh chose to play at cassino, the two girls had the honour of assisting Mrs. Jenkinson to make up her party.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29

9  I know not, Miss Elizabeth," said he, "whether Mrs. Collins has yet expressed her sense of your kindness in coming to us; but I am very certain you will not leave the house without receiving her thanks for it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 38

10  Elizabeth was sitting by herself the next morning, and writing to Jane while Mrs. Collins and Maria were gone on business into the village, when she was startled by a ring at the door, the certain signal of a visitor.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 32

11  Be assured, my dear sir, that Mrs. Collins and myself sincerely sympathise with you and all your respectable family, in your present distress, which must be of the bitterest kind, because proceeding from a cause which no time can remove.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 48

12  Mrs. Collins, seeing that she was really unwell, did not press her to go and as much as possible prevented her husband from pressing her; but Mr. Collins could not conceal his apprehension of Lady Catherine's being rather displeased by her staying at home.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33

13  In the intervals of her discourse with Mrs. Collins, she addressed a variety of questions to Maria and Elizabeth, but especially to the latter, of whose connections she knew the least, and who she observed to Mrs. Collins was a very genteel, pretty kind of girl.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29

14  I have told Miss Bennet several times, that she will never play really well unless she practises more; and though Mrs. Collins has no instrument, she is very welcome, as I have often told her, to come to Rosings every day, and play on the pianoforte in Mrs. Jenkinson's room.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31

15  Colonel Fitzwilliam entered into conversation directly with the readiness and ease of a well-bred man, and talked very pleasantly; but his cousin, after having addressed a slight observation on the house and garden to Mrs. Collins, sat for some time without speaking to anybody.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30

16  Her ladyship, with great condescension, arose to receive them; and as Mrs. Collins had settled it with her husband that the office of introduction should be hers, it was performed in a proper manner, without any of those apologies and thanks which he would have thought necessary.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29

17  She examined into their employments, looked at their work, and advised them to do it differently; found fault with the arrangement of the furniture; or detected the housemaid in negligence; and if she accepted any refreshment, seemed to do it only for the sake of finding out that Mrs. Collins's joints of meat were too large for her family.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30