COULD HAVE in Classic Quotes

1  There could not exist in the world two men over whom Mr. Darcy could have such boundless influence.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33

2  Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practised more, and could have the advantage of a London master.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31

3  In the gallery there were many family portraits, but they could have little to fix the attention of a stranger.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 43

4  No scheme could have been more agreeable to Elizabeth, and her acceptance of the invitation was most ready and grateful.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27

5  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
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50

6  The Netherfield ladies would have had difficulty in believing that a man who lived by trade, and within view of his own warehouses, could have been so well-bred and agreeable.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25

7  From what we have seen of him," continued Mrs. Gardiner, "I really should not have thought that he could have behaved in so cruel a way by anybody as he has done by poor Wickham.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 43

8  It was, on the contrary, exactly calculated to make her understand her own wishes; and never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 46

9  With amazement did she first understand that he believed any apology to be in his power; and steadfastly was she persuaded, that he could have no explanation to give, which a just sense of shame would not conceal.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 36

10  But though everything seemed neat and comfortable, she was not able to gratify him by any sigh of repentance, and rather looked with wonder at her friend that she could have so cheerful an air with such a companion.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28

11  I will only say farther that from what passed that evening, my opinion of all parties was confirmed, and every inducement heightened which could have led me before, to preserve my friend from what I esteemed a most unhappy connection.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35

12  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.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

13  He was beyond comparison the most pleasant man; he certainly admired her, and his situation in life was most eligible; but, to counterbalance these advantages, Mr. Darcy had considerable patronage in the church, and his cousin could have none at all.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 32

14  Even Elizabeth might have found some trial of her patience in weather which totally suspended the improvement of her acquaintance with Mr. Wickham; and nothing less than a dance on Tuesday, could have made such a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday endurable to Kitty and Lydia.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17

15  Nothing less than the complaisance of a courtier could have borne without anger such treatment; but Sir William's good breeding carried him through it all; and though he begged leave to be positive as to the truth of his information, he listened to all their impertinence with the most forbearing courtesy.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23

16  An hour, however, saw the whole completed; and Mr. Gardiner meanwhile having settled his account at the inn, nothing remained to be done but to go; and Elizabeth, after all the misery of the morning, found herself, in a shorter space of time than she could have supposed, seated in the carriage, and on the road to Longbourn.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 46

17  The present unhappy state of the family rendered any other excuse for the lowness of her spirits unnecessary; nothing, therefore, could be fairly conjectured from that, though Elizabeth, who was by this time tolerably well acquainted with her own feelings, was perfectly aware that, had she known nothing of Darcy, she could have borne the dread of Lydia's infamy somewhat better.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 48