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Quotes from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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1 I fancy she was wanted about the mince-pies.
2 My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them.
3 I hate to see you standing about by yourself in this stupid manner.
4 Nay, if you are serious about it, I shall consider the matter is absolutely settled.
5 I am not particularly speaking of such a case as you have supposed about Mr. Bingley.
6 But if he does it any more I shall certainly let him know that I see what he is about.
7 Miss Bingley made no answer, and soon afterwards she got up and walked about the room.
8 When they get to our age, I dare say they will not think about officers any more than we do.
9 Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a turn about the room.
10 In a few days Mr. Bingley returned Mr. Bennet's visit, and sat about ten minutes with him in his library.
11 She then ran gaily off, rejoicing as she rambled about, in the hope of being at home again in a day or two.
12 The eldest of them, a sensible, intelligent young woman, about twenty-seven, was Elizabeth's intimate friend.
13 About a month ago I received this letter; and about a fortnight ago I answered it, for I thought it a case of some delicacy, and requiring early attention.
14 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.
15 She could not imagine what business he could have in town so soon after his arrival in Hertfordshire; and she began to fear that he might be always flying about from one place to another, and never settled at Netherfield as he ought to be.
16 They had often attempted to do it before, but it was a subject on which Mrs. Bennet was beyond the reach of reason, and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.
17 It had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and, in quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world.
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