SPEAK in Classic Quotes

1  One must speak a little, you know.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

2  For heaven's sake, madam, speak lower.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

3  I will speak to her about it directly.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20

4  It gives me pain to speak ill of a Darcy.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

5  Such amiable qualities must speak for themselves.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

6  You wish to think all the world respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of anybody.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24

7  "I have not the smallest objection to explaining them," said he, as soon as she allowed him to speak.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

8  I told you in the library, you know, that I should never speak to you again, and you will find me as good as my word.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20

9  Mr. Darcy was eyeing him with unrestrained wonder, and when at last Mr. Collins allowed him time to speak, replied with an air of distant civility.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

10  She was at least free from the offense of Mr. Darcy's further notice; though often standing within a very short distance of her, quite disengaged, he never came near enough to speak.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

11  Mrs. Bennet treasured up the hint, and trusted that she might soon have two daughters married; and the man whom she could not bear to speak of the day before was now high in her good graces.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

12  She longed to speak, but could think of nothing to say; and after a short silence Mrs. Bennet began repeating her thanks to Mr. Bingley for his kindness to Jane, with an apology for troubling him also with Lizzy.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

13  Mr. Wickham began to speak on more general topics, Meryton, the neighbourhood, the society, appearing highly pleased with all that he had yet seen, and speaking of the latter with gentle but very intelligible gallantry.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

14  A week elapsed before she could see Elizabeth without scolding her, a month passed away before she could speak to Sir William or Lady Lucas without being rude, and many months were gone before she could at all forgive their daughter.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23

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.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28

16  Without supposing them, from what she saw, to be very seriously in love, their preference of each other was plain enough to make her a little uneasy; and she resolved to speak to Elizabeth on the subject before she left Hertfordshire, and represent to her the imprudence of encouraging such an attachment.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25

17  Charlotte's first letters were received with a good deal of eagerness; there could not but be curiosity to know how she would speak of her new home, how she would like Lady Catherine, and how happy she would dare pronounce herself to be; though, when the letters were read, Elizabeth felt that Charlotte expressed herself on every point exactly as she might have foreseen.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26