CAN in Classic Quotes

1  We can all plague and punish one another.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

2  Come as soon as you can on receipt of this.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

3  Miss Bingley," said he, "has given me more credit than can be.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

4  But I can assure the young ladies that I come prepared to admire them.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

5  The country," said Darcy, "can in general supply but a few subjects for such a study.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

6  Jane should therefore make the most of every half-hour in which she can command his attention.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

7  He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

8  It amazes me, I confess; for, certainly, there can be nothing so advantageous to them as instruction.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14

9  Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

10  From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

11  For my part, Mr. Bingley, I always keep servants that can do their own work; my daughters are brought up very differently.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

12  It certainly is a most iniquitous affair," said Mr. Bennet, "and nothing can clear Mr. Collins from the guilt of inheriting Longbourn.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

13  At our time of life it is not so pleasant, I can tell you, to be making new acquaintances every day; but for your sakes, we would do anything.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

14  But I can assure you," she added, "that Lizzy does not lose much by not suiting his fancy; for he is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

15  If you are not so compassionate as to dine to-day with Louisa and me, we shall be in danger of hating each other for the rest of our lives, for a whole day's tete-a-tete between two women can never end without a quarrel.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

16  His father, Miss Bennet, the late Mr. Darcy, was one of the best men that ever breathed, and the truest friend I ever had; and I can never be in company with this Mr. Darcy without being grieved to the soul by a thousand tender recollections.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

17  I hope," said she, as they were walking together in the shrubbery the next day, "you will give your mother-in-law a few hints, when this desirable event takes place, as to the advantage of holding her tongue; and if you can compass it, do cure the younger girls of running after officers.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10