PLEASE in Classic Quotes

1  Probably not; but Mr. Darcy can please where he chooses.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

2  Her performance was pleasing, though by no means capital.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

3  But they are very pleasing women when you converse with them.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

4  "It shows an affection for her sister that is very pleasing," said Bingley.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

5  More thoughtfulness and less anxiety to please, than when they last met, were plainly expressed.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53

6  And as to laughter, we will not expose ourselves, if you please, by attempting to laugh without a subject.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

7  And if not able to please himself in the arrangement, he has at least pleasure in the great power of choice.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 33

8  His appearance was greatly in his favour; he had all the best part of beauty, a fine countenance, a good figure, and very pleasing address.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

9  His understanding and opinions all please me; he wants nothing but a little more liveliness, and that, if he marry prudently, his wife may teach him.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52

10  I am perfectly ready, I assure you, to keep my engagement; and when your sister is recovered, you shall, if you please, name the very day of the ball.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

11  When you have killed all your own birds, Mr. Bingley," said her mother, "I beg you will come here, and shoot as many as you please on Mr. Bennet's manor.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53

12  But I can assure you," she added, "that Lizzy does not lose much by not suiting his fancy; for he is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

13  His anxiety for Jane was evident, and his attentions to herself most pleasing, and they prevented her feeling herself so much an intruder as she believed she was considered by the others.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

14  Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the goodwill of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters not worth speaking to, a wish of being better acquainted with them was expressed towards the two eldest.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

15  She was quite amazed at her own discomposure; but amongst other causes of disquiet, she dreaded lest the partiality of the brother should have said too much in her favour; and, more than commonly anxious to please, she naturally suspected that every power of pleasing would fail her.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44

16  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
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

17  Elizabeth listened in silence, but was not convinced; their behaviour at the assembly had not been calculated to please in general; and with more quickness of observation and less pliancy of temper than her sister, and with a judgement too unassailed by any attention to herself, she was very little disposed to approve them.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4