ONE in Classic Quotes

1  But that is one great difference between us.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

2  Only think what an establishment it would be for one of them.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

3  The distance is nothing when one has a motive; only three miles.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

4  Their brother, indeed, was the only one of the party whom she could regard with any complacency.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

5  Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply, but, unable to contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

6  She danced four dances with him at Meryton; she saw him one morning at his own house, and has since dined with him in company four times.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

7  Amongst the most violent against him was Mrs. Bennet, whose dislike of his general behaviour was sharpened into particular resentment by his having slighted one of her daughters.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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8  Your plan is a good one," replied Elizabeth, "where nothing is in question but the desire of being well married, and if I were determined to get a rich husband, or any husband, I dare say I should adopt it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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9  Mr. Bingley had soon made himself acquainted with all the principal people in the room; he was lively and unreserved, danced every dance, was angry that the ball closed so early, and talked of giving one himself at Netherfield.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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10  She could not imagine what business he could have in town so soon after his arrival in Hertfordshire; and she began to fear that he might be always flying about from one place to another, and never settled at Netherfield as he ought to be.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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11  The village of Longbourn was only one mile from Meryton; a most convenient distance for the young ladies, who were usually tempted thither three or four times a week, to pay their duty to their aunt and to a milliner's shop just over the way.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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12  However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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13  Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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14  After a song or two, and before she could reply to the entreaties of several that she would sing again, she was eagerly succeeded at the instrument by her sister Mary, who having, in consequence of being the only plain one in the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments, was always impatient for display.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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15  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
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16  Elizabeth, easy and unaffected, had been listened to with much more pleasure, though not playing half so well; and Mary, at the end of a long concerto, was glad to purchase praise and gratitude by Scotch and Irish airs, at the request of her younger sisters, who, with some of the Lucases, and two or three officers, joined eagerly in dancing at one end of the room.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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17  In Meryton they parted; the two youngest repaired to the lodgings of one of the officers' wives, and Elizabeth continued her walk alone, crossing field after field at a quick pace, jumping over stiles and springing over puddles with impatient activity, and finding herself at last within view of the house, with weary ankles, dirty stockings, and a face glowing with the warmth of exercise.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7