MIGHT HAVE in Classic Quotes

1  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
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 42

2  Mrs. Bennet wished to understand by it that he thought of paying his addresses to one of her younger girls, and Mary might have been prevailed on to accept him.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22

3  That they might have met without ill consequence is perhaps probable; but his regard did not appear to me enough extinguished for him to see her without some danger.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35

4  Had the late Mr. Darcy liked me less, his son might have borne with me better; but his father's uncommon attachment to me irritated him, I believe, very early in life.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16

5  He had ruined for a while every hope of happiness for the most affectionate, generous heart in the world; and no one could say how lasting an evil he might have inflicted.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33

6  The promised letter of thanks from Mr. Collins arrived on Tuesday, addressed to their father, and written with all the solemnity of gratitude which a twelvemonth's abode in the family might have prompted.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23

7  You wanted me, I know, to say 'Yes,' that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10

8  Had his own happiness, however, been the only sacrifice, he might have been allowed to sport with it in whatever manner he thought best, but her sister's was involved in it, as she thought he must be sensible himself.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24

9  But I shall not scruple to assert, that the serenity of your sister's countenance and air was such as might have given the most acute observer a conviction that, however amiable her temper, her heart was not likely to be easily touched.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35

10  These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I, with greater policy, concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by reflection, by everything.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34

11  Lady Catherine had many other questions to ask respecting their journey, and as she did not answer them all herself, attention was necessary, which Elizabeth believed to be lucky for her; or, with a mind so occupied, she might have forgotten where she was.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 37

12  But, however this remonstrance might have staggered or delayed his determination, I do not suppose that it would ultimately have prevented the marriage, had it not been seconded by the assurance that I hesitated not in giving, of your sister's indifference.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35

13  She immediately felt that whatever desire Miss Darcy might have of being acquainted with her must be the work of her brother, and, without looking farther, it was satisfactory; it was gratifying to know that his resentment had not made him think really ill of her.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 43

14  Even Elizabeth might have found some trial of her patience in weather which totally suspended the improvement of her acquaintance with Mr. Wickham; and nothing less than a dance on Tuesday, could have made such a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday endurable to Kitty and Lydia.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17

15  Lady Lucas could not be insensible of triumph on being able to retort on Mrs. Bennet the comfort of having a daughter well married; and she called at Longbourn rather oftener than usual to say how happy she was, though Mrs. Bennet's sour looks and ill-natured remarks might have been enough to drive happiness away.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23

16  Elizabeth looked at Darcy to see how cordially he assented to his cousin's praise; but neither at that moment nor at any other could she discern any symptom of love; and from the whole of his behaviour to Miss de Bourgh she derived this comfort for Miss Bingley, that he might have been just as likely to marry her, had she been his relation.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31

17  Charlotte's first letters were received with a good deal of eagerness; there could not but be curiosity to know how she would speak of her new home, how she would like Lady Catherine, and how happy she would dare pronounce herself to be; though, when the letters were read, Elizabeth felt that Charlotte expressed herself on every point exactly as she might have foreseen.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26