READINESS in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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2 We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured.
3 Bingley was ready, Georgiana was eager, and Darcy determined, to be pleased.
4 When first he entered the corps, she was ready enough to admire him; but so we all were.
5 I am astonished, my dear," said Mrs. Bennet, "that you should be so ready to think your own children silly.
6 Elizabeth was exceedingly pleased with this proposal, and felt persuaded of her sister's ready acquiescence.
7 I rather wished, than believed him to be sincere; but, at any rate, was perfectly ready to accede to his proposal.
8 No scheme could have been more agreeable to Elizabeth, and her acceptance of the invitation was most ready and grateful.
9 At length the chaise arrived, the trunks were fastened on, the parcels placed within, and it was pronounced to be ready.
10 Mr. Wickham did not play at whist, and with ready delight was he received at the other table between Elizabeth and Lydia.
11 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.
12 Mr. Bennet indeed said little; but the ladies were ready enough to talk, and Mr. Collins seemed neither in need of encouragement, nor inclined to be silent himself.
13 Elizabeth received them with all the forbearance of civility, and, at the request of the gentlemen, remained at the instrument till her ladyship's carriage was ready to take them all home.
14 Nothing, on the contrary, could be more natural; and while able to suppose that it cost him a few struggles to relinquish her, she was ready to allow it a wise and desirable measure for both, and could very sincerely wish him happy.
15 About the middle of the next day, as she was in her room getting ready for a walk, a sudden noise below seemed to speak the whole house in confusion; and, after listening a moment, she heard somebody running up stairs in a violent hurry, and calling loudly after her.
16 Colonel Fitzwilliam entered into conversation directly with the readiness and ease of a well-bred man, and talked very pleasantly; but his cousin, after having addressed a slight observation on the house and garden to Mrs. Collins, sat for some time without speaking to anybody.