CANNOT in Classic Quotes

1  Miss Bingley, I am sure, cannot.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

2  I cannot do justice to his kindness.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

3  You cannot be too much upon your guard.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22

4  How near it may be to mine, I cannot pretend to say.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

5  But, my dear, your father cannot spare the horses, I am sure.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

6  I cannot bear to think that they should have all this estate.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23

7  One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

8  As yet, she cannot even be certain of the degree of her own regard nor of its reasonableness.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

9  I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

10  I cannot see that London has any great advantage over the country, for my part, except the shops and public places.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

11  One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

12  I cannot misunderstand you, but I entreat you, dear Lizzy, not to pain me by thinking that person to blame, and saying your opinion of him is sunk.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24

13  I cannot pretend to be sorry," said Wickham, after a short interruption, "that he or that any man should not be estimated beyond their deserts; but with him I believe it does not often happen.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

14  He must write his own sermons; and the time that remains will not be too much for his parish duties, and the care and improvement of his dwelling, which he cannot be excused from making as comfortable as possible.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

15  My dear Jane, Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24

16  Certain it is, that the living became vacant two years ago, exactly as I was of an age to hold it, and that it was given to another man; and no less certain is it, that I cannot accuse myself of having really done anything to deserve to lose it.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

17  I do not know the particulars, but I know very well that Mr. Darcy is not in the least to blame, that he cannot bear to hear George Wickham mentioned, and that though my brother thought that he could not well avoid including him in his invitation to the officers, he was excessively glad to find that he had taken himself out of the way.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18