MAN in Classic Quotes

1  Pray do not talk of that odious man.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

2  He was a tall, heavy-looking young man of five-and-twenty.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

3  One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

4  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

5  He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

6  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

7  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

8  Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

9  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

10  I beg you would not put it into Lizzy's head to be vexed by his ill-treatment, for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

11  She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man; and yet that he should look at her because he disliked her, was still more strange.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

12  When she was only fifteen, there was a man at my brother Gardiner's in town so much in love with her that my sister-in-law was sure he would make her an offer before we came away.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

13  It was next to impossible that their cousin should come in a scarlet coat, and it was now some weeks since they had received pleasure from the society of a man in any other colour.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

14  However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

15  Miss Bingley was engrossed by Mr. Darcy, her sister scarcely less so; and as for Mr. Hurst, by whom Elizabeth sat, he was an indolent man, who lived only to eat, drink, and play at cards; who, when he found her to prefer a plain dish to a ragout, had nothing to say to her.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

16  They had often attempted to do it before, but it was a subject on which Mrs. Bennet was beyond the reach of reason, and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

17  Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms, without forming at it any useful acquaintance.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15