MONEY in Classic Quotes

1  Money, money, was all that he wanted.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

2  Her father was growing distressed for money.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

3  When one lives in the world, a man or woman's marrying for money is too common to strike one as it ought.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

4  They had each had money, but their marriages had made a material difference in their degree of consequence.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

5  Without that attraction, not all her money would have tempted Elliot, and Sir Walter was, moreover, assured of her having been a very fine woman.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

6  Mr Elliot would do nothing, and she could do nothing herself, equally disabled from personal exertion by her state of bodily weakness, and from employing others by her want of money.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

7  Having long had as much money as he could spend, nothing to wish for on the side of avarice or indulgence, he has been gradually learning to pin his happiness upon the consequence he is heir to.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

8  They were always perfectly agreed in the want of more money, and a strong inclination for a handsome present from his father; but here, as on most topics, he had the superiority, for while Mary thought it a great shame that such a present was not made, he always contended for his father's having many other uses for his money, and a right to spend it as he liked.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6