PLEASURE in Classic Quotes

1  Elizabeth felt Jane's pleasure.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

2  Yes, indeed, and received no inconsiderable pleasure from the sight.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

3  This roused a general astonishment; and he had the pleasure of being eagerly questioned by his wife and his five daughters at once.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

4  But their father, though very laconic in his expressions of pleasure, was really glad to see them; he had felt their importance in the family circle.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12

5  It was next to impossible that their cousin should come in a scarlet coat, and it was now some weeks since they had received pleasure from the society of a man in any other colour.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

6  To the civil inquiries which then poured in, and amongst which she had the pleasure of distinguishing the much superior solicitude of Mr. Bingley's, she could not make a very favourable answer.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

7  You wanted me, I know, to say 'Yes,' that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

8  But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on her daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which would exactly finish Jane's week, could not bring herself to receive them with pleasure before.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12

9  Darcy, on the contrary, had seen a collection of people in whom there was little beauty and no fashion, for none of whom he had felt the smallest interest, and from none received either attention or pleasure.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

10  His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment, maintaining at the same time the most resolute composure of countenance, and, except in an occasional glance at Elizabeth, requiring no partner in his pleasure.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14

11  Jane pictured to herself a happy evening in the society of her two friends, and the attentions of her brother; and Elizabeth thought with pleasure of dancing a great deal with Mr. Wickham, and of seeing a confirmation of everything in Mr. Darcy's look and behaviour.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17

12  Elizabeth passed the chief of the night in her sister's room, and in the morning had the pleasure of being able to send a tolerable answer to the inquiries which she very early received from Mr. Bingley by a housemaid, and some time afterwards from the two elegant ladies who waited on his sisters.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

13  Miss Bingley's civility to Elizabeth increased at last very rapidly, as well as her affection for Jane; and when they parted, after assuring the latter of the pleasure it would always give her to see her either at Longbourn or Netherfield, and embracing her most tenderly, she even shook hands with the former.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12

14  By Jane, this attention was received with the greatest pleasure, but Elizabeth still saw superciliousness in their treatment of everybody, hardly excepting even her sister, and could not like them; though their kindness to Jane, such as it was, had a value as arising in all probability from the influence of their brother's admiration.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

15  When the ladies removed after dinner, Elizabeth ran up to her sister, and seeing her well guarded from cold, attended her into the drawing-room, where she was welcomed by her two friends with many professions of pleasure; and Elizabeth had never seen them so agreeable as they were during the hour which passed before the gentlemen appeared.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

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
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

17  It had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and, in quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5