HUMOUR in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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1 I was not in a humour to wait for any opening of yours.
2 It gave her all the animation that her spirits could boast; for she was in no cheerful humour.
3 She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.
4 She saw that he wanted to engage her on the old subject of his grievances, and she was in no humour to indulge him.
5 After the first fortnight or three weeks of her absence, health, good humour, and cheerfulness began to reappear at Longbourn.
6 They could describe an entertainment with accuracy, relate an anecdote with humour, and laugh at their acquaintance with spirit.
7 She was less handsome than her brother; but there was sense and good humour in her face, and her manners were perfectly unassuming and gentle.
8 She was received, however, very politely by them; and in their brother's manners there was something better than politeness; there was good humour and kindness.
9 A resemblance in good humour and good spirits had recommended her and Lydia to each other, and out of their three months' acquaintance they had been intimate two.
10 They were in fact very fine ladies; not deficient in good humour when they were pleased, nor in the power of making themselves agreeable when they chose it, but proud and conceited.
11 Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.
12 They did not see the gentlemen again till Tuesday; and Mrs. Bennet, in the meanwhile, was giving way to all the happy schemes, which the good humour and common politeness of Bingley, in half an hour's visit, had revived.
13 The bride and her mother could neither of them talk fast enough; and Wickham, who happened to sit near Elizabeth, began inquiring after his acquaintance in that neighbourhood, with a good humoured ease which she felt very unable to equal in her replies.
14 Her father, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her.
15 Mrs. Phillips's vulgarity was another, and perhaps a greater, tax on his forbearance; and though Mrs. Phillips, as well as her sister, stood in too much awe of him to speak with the familiarity which Bingley's good humour encouraged, yet, whenever she did speak, she must be vulgar.
16 Lydia was occasionally a visitor there, when her husband was gone to enjoy himself in London or Bath; and with the Bingleys they both of them frequently staid so long, that even Bingley's good humour was overcome, and he proceeded so far as to talk of giving them a hint to be gone.
17 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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