MEANNESS in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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1 I do not mean to say that a woman may not be settled too near her family.
2 She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.
3 Not that I mean to find fault with you, for such things I know are all chance in this world.
4 Never, since reading Jane's second letter, had she entertained a hope of Wickham's meaning to marry her.
5 Conjectures as to the meaning of it, rapid and wild, hurried into her brain; but she was satisfied with none.
6 While she spoke, Wickham looked as if scarcely knowing whether to rejoice over her words, or to distrust their meaning.
7 There was not much in the question, nor in the preceding remark; but there was a look and a manner which gave them meaning.
8 Elizabeth disdained the appearance of noticing this civil reflection, but its meaning did not escape, nor was it likely to conciliate her.
9 I do not mean, however, to assert that we can be justified in devoting too much of our time to music, for there are certainly other things to be attended to.
10 Undoubtedly," replied Darcy, to whom this remark was chiefly addressed, "there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation.
11 She then read the first sentence aloud, which comprised the information of their having just resolved to follow their brother to town directly, and of their meaning to dine in Grosvenor Street, where Mr. Hurst had a house.
12 He had certainly formed such a plan, and without meaning that it should affect his endeavour to separate him from Miss Bennet, it is probable that it might add something to his lively concern for the welfare of his friend.
13 At that moment, Sir William Lucas appeared close to them, meaning to pass through the set to the other side of the room; but on perceiving Mr. Darcy, he stopped with a bow of superior courtesy to compliment him on his dancing and his partner.
14 She could not think of Darcy's leaving Kent without remembering that his cousin was to go with him; but Colonel Fitzwilliam had made it clear that he had no intentions at all, and agreeable as he was, she did not mean to be unhappy about him.
15 She longed to see Mrs. Phillips, the Lucases, and all their other neighbours, and to hear herself called "Mrs. Wickham" by each of them; and in the mean time, she went after dinner to show her ring, and boast of being married, to Mrs. Hill and the two housemaids.
16 I am not now to learn," replied Mr. Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, "that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second, or even a third time.
17 In this perturbed state of mind, with thoughts that could rest on nothing, she walked on; but it would not do; in half a minute the letter was unfolded again, and collecting herself as well as she could, she again began the mortifying perusal of all that related to Wickham, and commanded herself so far as to examine the meaning of every sentence.
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