FATHER in Classic Quotes

1  The girls stared at their father.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

2  Yes, she called yesterday with her father.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

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

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

4  Her father had been an attorney in Meryton, and had left her four thousand pounds.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

5  She did at last extort from her father an acknowledgment that the horses were engaged.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

6  She looked at her father to entreat his interference, lest Mary should be singing all night.

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  I am astonished," said Miss Bingley, "that my father should have left so small a collection of books.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

9  He had entertained hopes of being admitted to a sight of the young ladies, of whose beauty he had heard much; but he saw only the father.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

10  But their father, though very laconic in his expressions of pleasure, was really glad to see them; he had felt their importance in the family circle.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12

11  Mr. Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had intended to purchase an estate, but did not live to do it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

12  Had the late Mr. Darcy liked me less, his son might have borne with me better; but his father's uncommon attachment to me irritated him, I believe, very early in life.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

13  She had a sister married to a Mr. Phillips, who had been a clerk to their father and succeeded him in the business, and a brother settled in London in a respectable line of trade.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

14  My dearest Lizzy, do but consider in what a disgraceful light it places Mr. Darcy, to be treating his father's favourite in such a manner, one whom his father had promised to provide for.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17

15  His father, Miss Bennet, the late Mr. Darcy, was one of the best men that ever breathed, and the truest friend I ever had; and I can never be in company with this Mr. Darcy without being grieved to the soul by a thousand tender recollections.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

16  The subjection in which his father had brought him up had given him originally great humility of manner; but it was now a good deal counteracted by the self-conceit of a weak head, living in retirement, and the consequential feelings of early and unexpected prosperity.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

17  Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms, without forming at it any useful acquaintance.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15