CONVINCE in Classic Quotes

1  I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

2  To convince him, therefore, that he had deceived himself, was no very difficult point.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

3  I dare say you believed it; but I am by no means convinced that you would be gone with such celerity.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

4  You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19

5  I have not a doubt of Mr. Bingley's sincerity," said Elizabeth warmly; "but you must excuse my not being convinced by assurances only.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

6  I must think your language too strong in speaking of both," replied Jane; "and I hope you will be convinced of it by seeing them happy together.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24

7  He listened to her with perfect indifference while she chose to entertain herself in this manner; and as his composure convinced her that all was safe, her wit flowed long.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

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  He answered me with the utmost civility, and even paid me the compliment of saying that he was so well convinced of Lady Catherine's discernment as to be certain she could never bestow a favour unworthily.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

10  That she should have walked three miles so early in the day, in such dirty weather, and by herself, was almost incredible to Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and Elizabeth was convinced that they held her in contempt for it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

11  Sir William stayed only a week at Hunsford, but his visit was long enough to convince him of his daughter's being most comfortably settled, and of her possessing such a husband and such a neighbour as were not often met with.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30

12  She could not help frequently glancing her eye at Mr. Darcy, though every glance convinced her of what she dreaded; for though he was not always looking at her mother, she was convinced that his attention was invariably fixed by her.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

13  By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

14  But in spite of the certainty in which Elizabeth affected to place this point, as well as the still more interesting one of Bingley's being withheld from seeing Jane, she felt a solicitude on the subject which convinced her, on examination, that she did not consider it entirely hopeless.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25

15  Whenever Charlotte came to see them, she concluded her to be anticipating the hour of possession; and whenever she spoke in a low voice to Mr. Collins, was convinced that they were talking of the Longbourn estate, and resolving to turn herself and her daughters out of the house, as soon as Mr. Bennet were dead.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23

16  Her daughter endeavoured to convince her of what she did not believe herself, that his attentions to Jane had been merely the effect of a common and transient liking, which ceased when he saw her no more; but though the probability of the statement was admitted at the time, she had the same story to repeat every day.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24

17  Elizabeth listened in silence, but was not convinced; their behaviour at the assembly had not been calculated to please in general; and with more quickness of observation and less pliancy of temper than her sister, and with a judgement too unassailed by any attention to herself, she was very little disposed to approve them.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4