AS A in Classic Quotes

1  He spoke of it as a certain event, of which the time alone could be undecided.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35

2  At Brighton she will be of less importance even as a common flirt than she has been here.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 41

3  Elizabeth, however, had never been blind to the impropriety of her father's behaviour as a husband.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 42

4  He began to wish to know more of her, and as a step towards conversing with her himself, attended to her conversation with others.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

5  But, though this might be imaginary, she could not be deceived as to his behaviour to Miss Darcy, who had been set up as a rival to Jane.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44

6  Miss Bennet was therefore established as a sweet girl, and their brother felt authorized by such commendation to think of her as he chose.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4

7  You must therefore allow me to follow the dictates of my conscience on this occasion, which leads me to perform what I look on as a point of duty.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18

8  Kitty and Lydia were far from envying Miss Lucas, for Mr. Collins was only a clergyman; and it affected them in no other way than as a piece of news to spread at Meryton.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23

9  Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26

10  I joined them unexpectedly a day or two before the intended elopement, and then Georgiana, unable to support the idea of grieving and offending a brother whom she almost looked up to as a father, acknowledged the whole to me.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35

11  If I," said Mr. Collins, "were so fortunate as to be able to sing, I should have great pleasure, I am sure, in obliging the company with an air; for I consider music as a very innocent diversion, and perfectly compatible with the profession of a clergyman.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18

12  His character sunk on every review of it; and as a punishment for him, as well as a possible advantage to Jane, she seriously hoped he might really soon marry Mr. Darcy's sister, as by Wickham's account, she would make him abundantly regret what he had thrown away.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26

13  Day after day passed away without bringing any other tidings of him than the report which shortly prevailed in Meryton of his coming no more to Netherfield the whole winter; a report which highly incensed Mrs. Bennet, and which she never failed to contradict as a most scandalous falsehood.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23

14  Let me recommend you, however, as a friend, not to give implicit confidence to all his assertions; for as to Mr. Darcy's using him ill, it is perfectly false; for, on the contrary, he has always been remarkably kind to him, though George Wickham has treated Mr. Darcy in a most infamous manner.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18

15  It had not been very great; he had lost every point; but when Mrs. Phillips began to express her concern thereupon, he assured her with much earnest gravity that it was not of the least importance, that he considered the money as a mere trifle, and begged that she would not make herself uneasy.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16

16  On being made acquainted with the present Mr. Darcy's treatment of him, she tried to remember some of that gentleman's reputed disposition when quite a lad which might agree with it, and was confident at last that she recollected having heard Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy formerly spoken of as a very proud, ill-natured boy.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25

17  A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15