FORTUNATE in Classic Quotes

1  But it is fortunate," thought she, "that I have something to wish for.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 42

2  Soon after you left me on Saturday, I was fortunate enough to find out in what part of London they were.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 49

3  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

4  One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

5  The ladies were somewhat more fortunate, for they had the advantage of ascertaining from an upper window that he wore a blue coat, and rode a black horse.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

6  She concluded with many good wishes that Lady Lucas might soon be equally fortunate, though evidently and triumphantly believing there was no chance of it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

7  Resignation to inevitable evils is the duty of us all; the peculiar duty of a young man who has been so fortunate as I have been in early preferment; and I trust I am resigned.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20

8  Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

9  They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother's fortune and their own had been acquired by trade.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

10  Mary had heard herself mentioned to Miss Bingley as the most accomplished girl in the neighbourhood; and Catherine and Lydia had been fortunate enough never to be without partners, which was all that they had yet learnt to care for at a ball.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

11  If I," said Mr. Collins, "were so fortunate as to be able to sing, I should have great pleasure, I am sure, in obliging the company with an air; for I consider music as a very innocent diversion, and perfectly compatible with the profession of a clergyman.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

12  During dinner, Mr. Bennet scarcely spoke at all; but when the servants were withdrawn, he thought it time to have some conversation with his guest, and therefore started a subject in which he expected him to shine, by observing that he seemed very fortunate in his patroness.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14

13  She was perfectly sensible that he never had; but she wished to see whether he would betray any consciousness of what had passed between the Bingleys and Jane, and she thought he looked a little confused as he answered that he had never been so fortunate as to meet Miss Bennet.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30

14  Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

15  On their being joined by Mr. Bingley himself, Elizabeth withdrew to Miss Lucas; to whose inquiry after the pleasantness of her last partner she had scarcely replied, before Mr. Collins came up to them, and told her with great exultation that he had just been so fortunate as to make a most important discovery.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

16  They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

17  A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15