DISAPPOINTMENT in Classic Quotes

1  Adieu to disappointment and spleen.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27

2  She was disappointed, and angry with herself for being so.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53

3  I have been a disappointed man, and my spirits will not bear solitude.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

4  Were the whole arrangement complete, my disappointment would be certain.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 42

5  Not yet, however, in spite of her disappointment in her husband, did Mrs. Bennet give up the point.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20

6  With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be content; but her own opinion continued the same, and she left him disappointed and sorry.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 41

7  Elizabeth was excessively disappointed; she had set her heart on seeing the Lakes, and still thought there might have been time enough.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 42

8  He had rather hoped that his wife's views on the stranger would be disappointed; but he soon found out that he had a different story to hear.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

9  Elizabeth could not but smile at such a conclusion of such a beginning, but Mrs. Bennet, who had persuaded herself that her husband regarded the affair as she wished, was excessively disappointed.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20

10  But Mr. Bennet was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own imprudence had brought on, in any of those pleasures which too often console the unfortunate for their folly or their vice.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 42

11  Elizabeth's collected behaviour, however, soon quieted his emotion; and as Miss Bingley, vexed and disappointed, dared not approach nearer to Wickham, Georgiana also recovered in time, though not enough to be able to speak any more.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 45

12  When she remembered the style of his address, she was still full of indignation; but when she considered how unjustly she had condemned and upbraided him, her anger was turned against herself; and his disappointed feelings became the object of compassion.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 37

13  Her disappointment in Charlotte made her turn with fonder regard to her sister, of whose rectitude and delicacy she was sure her opinion could never be shaken, and for whose happiness she grew daily more anxious, as Bingley had now been gone a week and nothing more was heard of his return.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23

14  Mrs. Bennet, in short, was in very great spirits; she had seen enough of Bingley's behaviour to Jane, to be convinced that she would get him at last; and her expectations of advantage to her family, when in a happy humour, were so far beyond reason, that she was quite disappointed at not seeing him there again the next day, to make his proposals.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 54

15  Lydia's being settled in the North, just when she had expected most pleasure and pride in her company, for she had by no means given up her plan of their residing in Hertfordshire, was a severe disappointment; and, besides, it was such a pity that Lydia should be taken from a regiment where she was acquainted with everybody, and had so many favourites.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 50

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  This part of his intelligence, though unheard by Lydia, was caught by Elizabeth, and, as it assured her that Darcy was not less answerable for Wickham's absence than if her first surmise had been just, every feeling of displeasure against the former was so sharpened by immediate disappointment, that she could hardly reply with tolerable civility to the polite inquiries which he directly afterwards approached to make.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18