INTELLIGENCE in Classic Quotes

1  Her mother would talk of her views in the same intelligible tone.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

2  She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 50

3  Their visits to Mrs. Phillips were now productive of the most interesting intelligence.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

4  Neither had anything occurred in the intelligence of their Lambton friends that could materially lessen its weight.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44

5  They were forced to conclude that he had no pleasing intelligence to send; but even of that they would have been glad to be certain.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 48

6  She had obtained private intelligence that Mr. Darcy did not wish for cards; and Mr. Hurst soon found even his open petition rejected.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

7  This Mrs. Younge was, he knew, intimately acquainted with Wickham; and he went to her for intelligence of him as soon as he got to town.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52

8  When they were all in the drawing-room, the questions which Elizabeth had already asked were of course repeated by the others, and they soon found that Jane had no intelligence to give.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 47

9  She listened most attentively to all that passed between them, and gloried in every expression, every sentence of her uncle, which marked his intelligence, his taste, or his good manners.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

10  By this time, my dearest sister, you have received my hurried letter; I wish this may be more intelligible, but though not confined for time, my head is so bewildered that I cannot answer for being coherent.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 46

11  Mr. Wickham began to speak on more general topics, Meryton, the neighbourhood, the society, appearing highly pleased with all that he had yet seen, and speaking of the latter with gentle but very intelligible gallantry.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

12  The beginning contained an account of all their little parties and engagements, with such news as the country afforded; but the latter half, which was dated a day later, and written in evident agitation, gave more important intelligence.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 46

13  They had, therefore, many acquaintances in common; and though Wickham had been little there since the death of Darcy's father, it was yet in his power to give her fresher intelligence of her former friends than she had been in the way of procuring.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25

14  In the former were many good paintings; but Elizabeth knew nothing of the art; and from such as had been already visible below, she had willingly turned to look at some drawings of Miss Darcy's, in crayons, whose subjects were usually more interesting, and also more intelligible.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

15  His arrival was soon known at the Parsonage; for Mr. Collins was walking the whole morning within view of the lodges opening into Hunsford Lane, in order to have the earliest assurance of it, and after making his bow as the carriage turned into the Park, hurried home with the great intelligence.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30

16  The two gentlemen left Rosings the next morning, and Mr. Collins having been in waiting near the lodges, to make them his parting obeisance, was able to bring home the pleasing intelligence, of their appearing in very good health, and in as tolerable spirits as could be expected, after the melancholy scene so lately gone through at Rosings.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 37

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