SCHEME in Classic Quotes

1  Not one party, or scheme, or anything.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 51

2  Other schemes, too, came into her head.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 49

3  Whatever he might afterwards persuade her to, it was not on her side a scheme of infamy.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 47

4  In her kind schemes for Elizabeth, she sometimes planned her marrying Colonel Fitzwilliam.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 32

5  Yes," thought Elizabeth, "that would be a delightful scheme indeed, and completely do for us at once.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 39

6  No scheme could have been more agreeable to Elizabeth, and her acceptance of the invitation was most ready and grateful.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27

7  After a week spent in professions of love and schemes of felicity, Mr. Collins was called from his amiable Charlotte by the arrival of Saturday.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25

8  The fishing scheme had been renewed the day before, and a positive engagement made of his meeting some of the gentlemen at Pemberley before noon.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44

9  In the afternoon Lydia was urgent with the rest of the girls to walk to Meryton, and to see how everybody went on; but Elizabeth steadily opposed the scheme.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 39

10  There was novelty in the scheme, and as, with such a mother and such uncompanionable sisters, home could not be faultless, a little change was not unwelcome for its own sake.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27

11  She had not been many hours at home before she found that the Brighton scheme, of which Lydia had given them a hint at the inn, was under frequent discussion between her parents.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 39

12  Elizabeth was surprised, however, that Wickham should consent to such a scheme, and had she consulted only her own inclination, any meeting with him would have been the last object of her wishes.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 50

13  Such was Miss Lucas's scheme; and appearances were so favourable, that when they parted at night, she would have felt almost secure of success if he had not been to leave Hertfordshire so very soon.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22

14  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
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

15  The day of his and Lydia's departure soon came, and Mrs. Bennet was forced to submit to a separation, which, as her husband by no means entered into her scheme of their all going to Newcastle, was likely to continue at least a twelvemonth.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53

16  Her tour to the Lakes was now the object of her happiest thoughts; it was her best consolation for all the uncomfortable hours which the discontentedness of her mother and Kitty made inevitable; and could she have included Jane in the scheme, every part of it would have been perfect.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 42

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