DAUGHTERS in Classic Quotes

1  Upon this signal, the youngest of her daughters put herself forward.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

2  The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

3  Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply, but, unable to contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

4  For my part, Mr. Bingley, I always keep servants that can do their own work; my daughters are brought up very differently.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

5  This roused a general astonishment; and he had the pleasure of being eagerly questioned by his wife and his five daughters at once.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

6  After sitting a little while with Jane, on Miss Bingley's appearance and invitation, the mother and three daughters all attended her into the breakfast parlour.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

7  Amongst the most violent against him was Mrs. Bennet, whose dislike of his general behaviour was sharpened into particular resentment by his having slighted one of her daughters.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

8  As for their mother, Mr. Collins's letter had done away much of her ill-will, and she was preparing to see him with a degree of composure which astonished her husband and daughters.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

9  But he was set right there by Mrs. Bennet, who assured him with some asperity that they were very well able to keep a good cook, and that her daughters had nothing to do in the kitchen.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

10  Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

11  But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on her daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which would exactly finish Jane's week, could not bring herself to receive them with pleasure before.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12

12  However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

13  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.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

14  He had not been long seated before he complimented Mrs. Bennet on having so fine a family of daughters; said he had heard much of their beauty, but that in this instance fame had fallen short of the truth; and added, that he did not doubt her seeing them all in due time disposed of in marriage.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

15  Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

16  Mrs. Bennet and her daughters then departed, and Elizabeth returned instantly to Jane, leaving her own and her relations' behaviour to the remarks of the two ladies and Mr. Darcy; the latter of whom, however, could not be prevailed on to join in their censure of her, in spite of all Miss Bingley's witticisms on fine eyes.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

17  Mrs. Bennet and her daughters apologised most civilly for Lydia's interruption, and promised that it should not occur again, if he would resume his book; but Mr. Collins, after assuring them that he bore his young cousin no ill-will, and should never resent her behaviour as any affront, seated himself at another table with Mr. Bennet, and prepared for backgammon.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14