LIFE in Classic Quotes

1  I never in my life saw anything more elegant than their dresses.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

2  The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

3  A military life is not what I was intended for, but circumstances have now made it eligible.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

4  Almost as soon as I entered the house, I singled you out as the companion of my future life.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19

5  You have deprived the best years of his life of that independence which was no less his due than his desert.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 34

6  At our time of life it is not so pleasant, I can tell you, to be making new acquaintances every day; but for your sakes, we would do anything.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

7  Something, he supposed, might be attributed to his connection with them, but yet he had never met with so much attention in the whole course of his life.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

8  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

9  I am the less surprised at what has happened," replied Sir William, "from that knowledge of what the manners of the great really are, which my situation in life has allowed me to acquire.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

10  It was necessary to make this circumstance a matter of pleasure, because on such occasions it is the etiquette; but no one was less likely than Mrs. Bennet to find comfort in staying home at any period of her life.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

11  He was beyond comparison the most pleasant man; he certainly admired her, and his situation in life was most eligible; but, to counterbalance these advantages, Mr. Darcy had considerable patronage in the church, and his cousin could have none at all.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 32

12  Bingley had never met with more pleasant people or prettier girls in his life; everybody had been most kind and attentive to him; there had been no formality, no stiffness; he had soon felt acquainted with all the room; and, as to Miss Bennet, he could not conceive an angel more beautiful.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

13  Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

14  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

15  My situation in life, my connections with the family of de Bourgh, and my relationship to your own, are circumstances highly in my favour; and you should take it into further consideration, that in spite of your manifold attractions, it is by no means certain that another offer of marriage may ever be made you.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19

16  It was, moreover, such a promising thing for her younger daughters, as Jane's marrying so greatly must throw them in the way of other rich men; and lastly, it was so pleasant at her time of life to be able to consign her single daughters to the care of their sister, that she might not be obliged to go into company more than she liked.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

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