DELIGHT in Classic Quotes

1  It is of all subjects my delight.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31

2  Elizabeth, at work in the opposite corner, saw it all with great delight.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

3  Mrs. Reynolds anticipated Miss Darcy's delight, when she should enter the room.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

4  The prospect of such delights was very cheering, and they parted in mutual good spirits.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

5  Elizabeth honestly and heartily expressed her delight in the prospect of their relationship.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 55

6  She was now in an irritation as violent from delight, as she had ever been fidgety from alarm and vexation.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 49

7  Elizabeth's congratulations were given with a sincerity, a warmth, a delight, which words could but poorly express.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 55

8  Mr. Wickham did not play at whist, and with ready delight was he received at the other table between Elizabeth and Lydia.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

9  The rapture of Lydia on this occasion, her adoration of Mrs. Forster, the delight of Mrs. Bennet, and the mortification of Kitty, are scarcely to be described.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 41

10  Elizabeth listened with delight to the happy, though modest hopes which Jane entertained of Mr. Bingley's regard, and said all in her power to heighten her confidence in it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

11  Every disposition of the ground was good; and she looked on the whole scene, the river, the trees scattered on its banks and the winding of the valley, as far as she could trace it, with delight.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

12  You wanted me, I know, to say 'Yes,' that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

13  At length, however, Mrs. Bennet had no more to say; and Lady Lucas, who had been long yawning at the repetition of delights which she saw no likelihood of sharing, was left to the comforts of cold ham and chicken.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

14  Sir William Lucas, and his daughter Maria, a good-humoured girl, but as empty-headed as himself, had nothing to say that could be worth hearing, and were listened to with about as much delight as the rattle of the chaise.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27

15  Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 37

16  The colour which had been driven from her face, returned for half a minute with an additional glow, and a smile of delight added lustre to her eyes, as she thought for that space of time that his affection and wishes must still be unshaken.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53

17  Every object in the next day's journey was new and interesting to Elizabeth; and her spirits were in a state of enjoyment; for she had seen her sister looking so well as to banish all fear for her health, and the prospect of her northern tour was a constant source of delight.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28