OFTEN in Classic Quotes

1  Such very superior dancing is not often seen.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

2  I often tell my other girls they are nothing to her.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

3  Lady Lucas herself has often said so, and envied me Jane's beauty.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

4  Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

5  His pride," said Miss Lucas, "does not offend me so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

6  A regard for the requester would often make one readily yield to a request, without waiting for arguments to reason one into it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

7  It is wonderful," replied Wickham, "for almost all his actions may be traced to pride; and pride had often been his best friend.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

8  I have often observed how little young ladies are interested by books of a serious stamp, though written solely for their benefit.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14

9  It has often led him to be liberal and generous, to give his money freely, to display hospitality, to assist his tenants, and relieve the poor.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

10  She often tried to provoke Darcy into disliking her guest, by talking of their supposed marriage, and planning his happiness in such an alliance.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

11  Elizabeth did not quit her room for a moment; nor were the other ladies often absent; the gentlemen being out, they had, in fact, nothing to do elsewhere.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

12  The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

13  He made no answer, and they were again silent till they had gone down the dance, when he asked her if she and her sisters did not very often walk to Meryton.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

14  I cannot pretend to be sorry," said Wickham, after a short interruption, "that he or that any man should not be estimated beyond their deserts; but with him I believe it does not often happen.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

15  Mr. Collins, awkward and solemn, apologising instead of attending, and often moving wrong without being aware of it, gave her all the shame and misery which a disagreeable partner for a couple of dances can give.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

16  But, though Bingley and Jane meet tolerably often, it is never for many hours together; and, as they always see each other in large mixed parties, it is impossible that every moment should be employed in conversing together.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

17  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