NECESSARY in Classic Quotes

1  Society, I own, is necessary to me.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

2  It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19

3  It was not thought necessary in Sir Lewis de Bourgh's family.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

4  We were always encouraged to read, and had all the masters that were necessary.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

5  Colonel Forster believed that more than a thousand pounds would be necessary to clear his expenses at Brighton.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 48

6  Don't think me angry, however, for I only mean to let you know that I had not imagined such inquiries to be necessary on your side.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52

7  That the Miss Lucases and the Miss Bennets should meet to talk over a ball was absolutely necessary; and the morning after the assembly brought the former to Longbourn to hear and to communicate.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

8  On Saturday morning Elizabeth and Mr. Collins met for breakfast a few minutes before the others appeared; and he took the opportunity of paying the parting civilities which he deemed indispensably necessary.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 38

9  It was necessary to make this circumstance a matter of pleasure, because on such occasions it is the etiquette; but no one was less likely than Mrs. Bennet to find comfort in staying home at any period of her life.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

10  It seemed like wilful ill-nature, or a voluntary penance, for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away, but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 33

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
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 37

12  Her ladyship, with great condescension, arose to receive them; and as Mrs. Collins had settled it with her husband that the office of introduction should be hers, it was performed in a proper manner, without any of those apologies and thanks which he would have thought necessary.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

13  Very few days passed in which Mr. Collins did not walk to Rosings, and not many in which his wife did not think it necessary to go likewise; and till Elizabeth recollected that there might be other family livings to be disposed of, she could not understand the sacrifice of so many hours.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30

14  Mrs. Bennet was perfectly satisfied, and quitted the house under the delightful persuasion that, allowing for the necessary preparations of settlements, new carriages, and wedding clothes, she should undoubtedly see her daughter settled at Netherfield in the course of three or four months.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

15  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

16  No sooner did he appear than Elizabeth wisely resolved to be perfectly easy and unembarrassed; a resolution the more necessary to be made, but perhaps not the more easily kept, because she saw that the suspicions of the whole party were awakened against them, and that there was scarcely an eye which did not watch his behaviour when he first came into the room.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 45

17  Elizabeth tried hard to dissuade him from such a scheme, assuring him that Mr. Darcy would consider his addressing him without introduction as an impertinent freedom, rather than a compliment to his aunt; that it was not in the least necessary there should be any notice on either side; and that if it were, it must belong to Mr. Darcy, the superior in consequence, to begin the acquaintance.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18