WHAT in Classic Quotes

1  Everything nourishes what is strong already.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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2  I hope I never ridicule what is wise and good.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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3  Only think what an establishment it would be for one of them.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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4  One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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5  "That is exactly what I should have supposed of you," said Elizabeth.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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6  But if he does it any more I shall certainly let him know that I see what he is about.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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7  And yet, upon my honour, I believe what I said of myself to be true, and I believe it at this moment.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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8  Elizabeth took up some needlework, and was sufficiently amused in attending to what passed between Darcy and his companion.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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9  I am exceedingly gratified," said Bingley, "by your converting what my friend says into a compliment on the sweetness of my temper.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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10  Mr. Bingley was unaffectedly civil in his answer, and forced his younger sister to be civil also, and say what the occasion required.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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11  Miss Bingley immediately fixed her eyes on his face, and desired he would tell her what lady had the credit of inspiring such reflections.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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12  Miss Bennet's lovely face confirmed his views, and established all his strictest notions of what was due to seniority; and for the first evening she was his settled choice.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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13  The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished; that of Mrs. Bennet perhaps surpassing the rest; though, when the first tumult of joy was over, she began to declare that it was what she had expected all the while.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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14  She could not imagine what business he could have in town so soon after his arrival in Hertfordshire; and she began to fear that he might be always flying about from one place to another, and never settled at Netherfield as he ought to be.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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15  Elizabeth was so much caught with what passed, as to leave her very little attention for her book; and soon laying it wholly aside, she drew near the card-table, and stationed herself between Mr. Bingley and his eldest sister, to observe the game.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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16  Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley both cried out against the injustice of her implied doubt, and were both protesting that they knew many women who answered this description, when Mr. Hurst called them to order, with bitter complaints of their inattention to what was going forward.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
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17  I am sure," she added, "if it was not for such good friends I do not know what would become of her, for she is very ill indeed, and suffers a vast deal, though with the greatest patience in the world, which is always the way with her, for she has, without exception, the sweetest temper I have ever met with.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9