HANDSOMER in Classic Quotes

1  It was really a very handsome thought.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

2  It was a handsome modern building, well situated on rising ground.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28

3  She is a handsome girl, about fifteen or sixteen, and, I understand, highly accomplished.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

4  Elizabeth honoured him for such feelings, and thought him handsomer than ever as he expressed them.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

5  He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

6  Lady Catherine was a tall, large woman, with strongly-marked features, which might once have been handsome.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

7  "You are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room," said Mr. Darcy, looking at the eldest Miss Bennet.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

8  Colonel Fitzwilliam, who led the way, was about thirty, not handsome, but in person and address most truly the gentleman.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30

9  Lizzy is not a bit better than the others; and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good-humoured as Lydia.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

10  This preservative she had now obtained; and at the age of twenty-seven, without having ever been handsome, she felt all the good luck of it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22

11  He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely agreeable, and, to crown the whole, he meant to be at the next assembly with a large party.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

12  Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

13  It was an evening of no common delight to them all; the satisfaction of Miss Bennet's mind gave a glow of such sweet animation to her face, as made her look handsomer than ever.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 55

14  Having now a good house and a very sufficient income, he intended to marry; and in seeking a reconciliation with the Longbourn family he had a wife in view, as he meant to choose one of the daughters, if he found them as handsome and amiable as they were represented by common report.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

15  His brother-in-law, Mr. Hurst, merely looked the gentleman; but his friend Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien, and the report which was in general circulation within five minutes after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

16  The dinner was exceedingly handsome, and there were all the servants and all the articles of plate which Mr. Collins had promised; and, as he had likewise foretold, he took his seat at the bottom of the table, by her ladyship's desire, and looked as if he felt that life could furnish nothing greater.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

17  They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4