PROPOSAL in Classic Quotes

1  Elizabeth was exceedingly pleased with this proposal, and felt persuaded of her sister's ready acquiescence.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25

2  I rather wished, than believed him to be sincere; but, at any rate, was perfectly ready to accede to his proposal.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

3  I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19

4  It was not without an effort, meanwhile, that she could wait even for Longbourn, before she told her sister of Mr. Darcy's proposals.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 38

5  Mr. Wickham's happiness and her own were perforce delayed a little longer, and Mr. Collins's proposal accepted with as good a grace as she could.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17

6  Miss Bingley was then sorry that she had proposed the delay, for her jealousy and dislike of one sister much exceeded her affection for the other.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12

7  Elizabeth could hardly help laughing at so convenient a proposal; yet was really vexed that her mother should be always giving him such an epithet.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 59

8  This was one point, with regard to Lydia, at least, which was now to be settled, and Mr. Bennet could have no hesitation in acceding to the proposal before him.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 50

9  She would not listen, therefore, to her daughter's proposal of being carried home; neither did the apothecary, who arrived about the same time, think it at all advisable.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

10  Before they were separated by the conclusion of the play, she had the unexpected happiness of an invitation to accompany her uncle and aunt in a tour of pleasure which they proposed taking in the summer.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27

11  This she would not hear of; but she was not so unwilling to comply with their brother's proposal; and it was settled that Mr. Jones should be sent for early in the morning, if Miss Bennet were not decidedly better.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

12  The gentlemen arrived early; and, before Mrs. Bennet had time to tell him of their having seen his aunt, of which her daughter sat in momentary dread, Bingley, who wanted to be alone with Jane, proposed their all walking out.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 58

13  This information, however, startled Mrs. Bennet; she would have been glad to be equally satisfied that her daughter had meant to encourage him by protesting against his proposals, but she dared not believe it, and could not help saying so.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20

14  At one time she had almost resolved on applying to him, but the idea was checked by the awkwardness of the application, and at length wholly banished by the conviction that Mr. Darcy would never have hazarded such a proposal, if he had not been well assured of his cousin's corroboration.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36

15  Presuming however, that this studied avoidance spoke rather a momentary embarrassment than any dislike of the proposal, and seeing in her husband, who was fond of society, a perfect willingness to accept it, she ventured to engage for her attendance, and the day after the next was fixed on.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44

16  Mrs. Bennet, in short, was in very great spirits; she had seen enough of Bingley's behaviour to Jane, to be convinced that she would get him at last; and her expectations of advantage to her family, when in a happy humour, were so far beyond reason, that she was quite disappointed at not seeing him there again the next day, to make his proposals.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 54

17  To Jane, he could be only a man whose proposals she had refused, and whose merit she had undervalued; but to her own more extensive information, he was the person to whom the whole family were indebted for the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an interest, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just as what Jane felt for Bingley.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53