EXPECTATIONS in Classic Quotes

1  Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14

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

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26

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

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 46

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  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

6  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

7  It was a comfort to Elizabeth to consider that Jane could not have been wearied by long expectations.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 47

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 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

11  But here, by carrying with me one ceaseless source of regret in my sister's absence, I may reasonably hope to have all my expectations of pleasure realised.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 42

12  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.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36

13  With a book he was regardless of time; and on the present occasion he had a good deal of curiosity as to the event of an evening which had raised such splendid expectations.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

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  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.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

16  Mrs. Bennet, in short, was in very great spirits; she had seen enough of Bingley's behaviour to Jane, to be convinced that she would get him at last; and her expectations of advantage to her family, when in a happy humour, were so far beyond reason, that she was quite disappointed at not seeing him there again the next day, to make his proposals.

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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 54

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