PLEASURES 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  The last-born has as good a right to the pleasures of youth at the first.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

4  Colonel Fitzwilliam's manners were very much admired at the Parsonage, and the ladies all felt that he must add considerably to the pleasures of their engagements at Rosings.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31

5  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

6  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

7  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

8  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

9  But Mr. Bennet was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own imprudence had brought on, in any of those pleasures which too often console the unfortunate for their folly or their vice.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 42

10  To work in this garden was one of his most respectable pleasures; and Elizabeth admired the command of countenance with which Charlotte talked of the healthfulness of the exercise, and owned she encouraged it as much as possible.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28

11  Mrs. Gardiner was surprised and concerned; but as they were now approaching the scene of her former pleasures, every idea gave way to the charm of recollection; and she was too much engaged in pointing out to her husband all the interesting spots in its environs to think of anything else.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

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