SITUATION in Classic Quotes

1  You do not make allowance enough for difference of situation and temper.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24

2  Young women should always be properly guarded and attended, according to their situation in life.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 37

3  Poor Lydia's situation must, at best, be bad enough; but that it was no worse, she had need to be thankful.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 49

4  Our situation with regard to Lady Catherine's family is indeed the sort of extraordinary advantage and blessing which few can boast.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 38

5  In spite of this amendment, however, she requested to have a note sent to Longbourn, desiring her mother to visit Jane, and form her own judgement of her situation.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

6  I am the less surprised at what has happened," replied Sir William, "from that knowledge of what the manners of the great really are, which my situation in life has allowed me to acquire.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

7  Lakes, mountains, and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarreling about its relative situation.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27

8  She was busily searching through the neighbourhood for a proper situation for her daughter, and, without knowing or considering what their income might be, rejected many as deficient in size and importance.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 50

9  I feel myself called upon, by our relationship, and my situation in life, to condole with you on the grievous affliction you are now suffering under, of which we were yesterday informed by a letter from Hertfordshire.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 48

10  Her pale face and impetuous manner made him start, and before he could recover himself to speak, she, in whose mind every idea was superseded by Lydia's situation, hastily exclaimed, "I beg your pardon, but I must leave you."

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 46

11  His first object with her, he acknowledged, had been to persuade her to quit her present disgraceful situation, and return to her friends as soon as they could be prevailed on to receive her, offering his assistance, as far as it would go.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52

12  The situation of your mother's family, though objectionable, was nothing in comparison to that total want of propriety so frequently, so almost uniformly betrayed by herself, by your three younger sisters, and occasionally even by your father.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

13  He was beyond comparison the most pleasant man; he certainly admired her, and his situation in life was most eligible; but, to counterbalance these advantages, Mr. Darcy had considerable patronage in the church, and his cousin could have none at all.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 32

14  Pardon me for interrupting you, madam," cried Mr. Collins; "but if she is really headstrong and foolish, I know not whether she would altogether be a very desirable wife to a man in my situation, who naturally looks for happiness in the marriage state.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20

15  Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

16  My situation in life, my connections with the family of de Bourgh, and my relationship to your own, are circumstances highly in my favour; and you should take it into further consideration, that in spite of your manifold attractions, it is by no means certain that another offer of marriage may ever be made you.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19

17  She could think of nothing else; and yet whether Bingley's regard had really died away, or were suppressed by his friends' interference; whether he had been aware of Jane's attachment, or whether it had escaped his observation; whatever were the case, though her opinion of him must be materially affected by the difference, her sister's situation remained the same, her peace equally wounded.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24