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Quotes from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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1 He smiled, looked handsome, and said many pretty things.
2 Miss Bennet he acknowledged to be pretty, but she smiled too much.
3 You know pretty well, I suppose, what has been done for the young people.
4 I do not think it is very pretty; but I thought I might as well buy it as not.
5 And though he exclaimed at the term, she found that it had been pretty much the case.
6 When I am in the country," he replied, "I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town it is pretty much the same.
7 Having been frequently in company with him since her return, agitation was pretty well over; the agitations of formal partiality entirely so.
8 There is but such a quantity of merit between them; just enough to make one good sort of man; and of late it has been shifting about pretty much.
9 Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise.
10 Colonel Fitzwilliam seemed really glad to see them; anything was a welcome relief to him at Rosings; and Mrs. Collins's pretty friend had moreover caught his fancy very much.
11 Elizabeth laughed heartily at this picture of herself, and said to Colonel Fitzwilliam, "Your cousin will give you a very pretty notion of me, and teach you not to believe a word I say."
12 As she spoke she observed him looking at her earnestly; and the manner in which he immediately asked her why she supposed Miss Darcy likely to give them any uneasiness, convinced her that she had somehow or other got pretty near the truth.
13 In the intervals of her discourse with Mrs. Collins, she addressed a variety of questions to Maria and Elizabeth, but especially to the latter, of whose connections she knew the least, and who she observed to Mrs. Collins was a very genteel, pretty kind of girl.
14 On reaching the spacious lobby above they were shown into a very pretty sitting-room, lately fitted up with greater elegance and lightness than the apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room when last at Pemberley.