EXPECT in Classic Quotes

1  You have sense, and we all expect you to use it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26

2  Colonel Forster gives us reason to expect him here soon.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 46

3  All expectation from the brother was now absolutely over.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26

4  We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24

5  I must confess myself surprised by your application; I did not expect it from you.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52

6  You are much mistaken if you expect to influence me by such a paltry attack as this.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

7  My dear Mr. Bennet, you must not expect such girls to have the sense of their father and mother.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

8  You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

9  "At four o'clock, therefore, we may expect this peace-making gentleman," said Mr. Bennet, as he folded up the letter.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

10  Mr. Gardiner added in his letter, that they might expect to see their father at home on the following day, which was Saturday.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 48

11  Yes, Miss Bennet, interest; for do not expect to be noticed by his family or friends, if you wilfully act against the inclinations of all.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 56

12  Mr. Gardiner himself did not expect any success from this measure, but as his brother was eager in it, he meant to assist him in pursuing it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 48

13  If Elizabeth, when Mr. Darcy gave her the letter, did not expect it to contain a renewal of his offers, she had formed no expectation at all of its contents.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36

14  Mr. Collins was carefully instructing them in what they were to expect, that the sight of such rooms, so many servants, and so splendid a dinner, might not wholly overpower them.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

15  With no expectation of pleasure, but with the strongest curiosity, Elizabeth opened the letter, and, to her still increasing wonder, perceived an envelope containing two sheets of letter-paper, written quite through, in a very close hand.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

16  His own father did not long survive mine, and within half a year from these events, Mr. Wickham wrote to inform me that, having finally resolved against taking orders, he hoped I should not think it unreasonable for him to expect some more immediate pecuniary advantage, in lieu of the preferment, by which he could not be benefited.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

17  Wilfully and wantonly to have thrown off the companion of my youth, the acknowledged favourite of my father, a young man who had scarcely any other dependence than on our patronage, and who had been brought up to expect its exertion, would be a depravity, to which the separation of two young persons, whose affection could be the growth of only a few weeks, could bear no comparison.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35