CONDUCT in Classic Quotes

1  Your cousin's conduct does not suit my feelings.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 33

2  Your father would depend on your resolution and good conduct, I am sure.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26

3  Those that best pleased her, as placing his conduct in the noblest light, seemed most improbable.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 51

4  Their conduct has been such," replied Elizabeth, "as neither you, nor I, nor anybody can ever forget.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 49

5  My conduct may, I fear, be objectionable in having accepted my dismission from your daughter's lips instead of your own.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20

6  She saw the indelicacy of putting himself forward as he had done, and the inconsistency of his professions with his conduct.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36

7  His affection was proved to have been sincere, and his conduct cleared of all blame, unless any could attach to the implicitness of his confidence in his friend.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 37

8  The recollection of what I then said, of my conduct, my manners, my expressions during the whole of it, is now, and has been many months, inexpressibly painful to me.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 58

9  I am far from attributing any part of Mr. Bingley's conduct to design," said Elizabeth; "but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24

10  There is but one part of my conduct in the whole affair on which I do not reflect with satisfaction; it is that I condescended to adopt the measures of art so far as to conceal from him your sister's being in town.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

11  Again she read on; but every line proved more clearly that the affair, which she had believed it impossible that any contrivance could so represent as to render Mr. Darcy's conduct in it less than infamous, was capable of a turn which must make him entirely blameless throughout the whole.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36

12  The possibility of his having endured such unkindness, was enough to interest all her tender feelings; and nothing remained therefore to be done, but to think well of them both, to defend the conduct of each, and throw into the account of accident or mistake whatever could not be otherwise explained.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17

13  Mr. Wickham is the son of a very respectable man, who had for many years the management of all the Pemberley estates, and whose good conduct in the discharge of his trust naturally inclined my father to be of service to him; and on George Wickham, who was his godson, his kindness was therefore liberally bestowed.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

14  He was exactly what he had been, when I knew him in Hertfordshire; but I would not tell you how little I was satisfied with her behaviour while she staid with us, if I had not perceived, by Jane's letter last Wednesday, that her conduct on coming home was exactly of a piece with it, and therefore what I now tell you can give you no fresh pain.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52

15  They agreed that Mrs. Bennet should only hear of the departure of the family, without being alarmed on the score of the gentleman's conduct; but even this partial communication gave her a great deal of concern, and she bewailed it as exceedingly unlucky that the ladies should happen to go away just as they were all getting so intimate together.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

16  It soothed, but it could not console her for the contempt which had thus been self-attracted by the rest of her family; and as she considered that Jane's disappointment had in fact been the work of her nearest relations, and reflected how materially the credit of both must be hurt by such impropriety of conduct, she felt depressed beyond anything she had ever known before.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36

17  Mrs. Bennet, to whose apartment they all repaired, after a few minutes' conversation together, received them exactly as might be expected; with tears and lamentations of regret, invectives against the villainous conduct of Wickham, and complaints of her own sufferings and ill-usage; blaming everybody but the person to whose ill-judging indulgence the errors of her daughter must principally be owing.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 47