RECOMMEND in Classic Quotes

1  She has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent walker.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

2  Her brother's recommendation was enough to ensure her favour; his judgement could not err.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 45

3  They saw him often, and to his other recommendations was now added that of general unreserve.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24

4  There could be no conversation in the noise of Mrs. Phillips's supper party, but his manners recommended him to everybody.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

5  Mr. Bingley had not been of age two years, when he was tempted by an accidental recommendation to look at Netherfield House.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

6  A resemblance in good humour and good spirits had recommended her and Lydia to each other, and out of their three months' acquaintance they had been intimate two.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 41

7  While they were dressing, he came two or three times to their different doors, to recommend their being quick, as Lady Catherine very much objected to be kept waiting for her dinner.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

8  Bingley urged Mr. Jones being sent for immediately; while his sisters, convinced that no country advice could be of any service, recommended an express to town for one of the most eminent physicians.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

9  She had high animal spirits, and a sort of natural self-consequence, which the attention of the officers, to whom her uncle's good dinners, and her own easy manners recommended her, had increased into assurance.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

10  She was sorry that Mr. Darcy should have delivered his sentiments in a manner so little suited to recommend them; but still more was she grieved for the unhappiness which her sister's refusal must have given him.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 40

11  Elizabeth Bennet," said Miss Bingley, when the door was closed on her, "is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own; and with many men, I dare say, it succeeds.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

12  He assured her, that as to dancing, he was perfectly indifferent to it; that his chief object was by delicate attentions to recommend himself to her and that he should therefore make a point of remaining close to her the whole evening.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

13  Four nieces of Mrs. Jenkinson are most delightfully situated through my means; and it was but the other day that I recommended another young person, who was merely accidentally mentioned to me, and the family are quite delighted with her.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

14  Persuaded as Miss Bingley was that Darcy admired Elizabeth, this was not the best method of recommending herself; but angry people are not always wise; and in seeing him at last look somewhat nettled, she had all the success she expected.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 45

15  Let me recommend you, however, as a friend, not to give implicit confidence to all his assertions; for as to Mr. Darcy's using him ill, it is perfectly false; for, on the contrary, he has always been remarkably kind to him, though George Wickham has treated Mr. Darcy in a most infamous manner.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

16  But Mr. Gardiner, though he assured her again of his earnest endeavours in the cause, could not avoid recommending moderation to her, as well in her hopes as her fear; and after talking with her in this manner till dinner was on the table, they all left her to vent all her feelings on the housekeeper, who attended in the absence of her daughters.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 47

17  A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15