WIFE in Classic Quotes

1  "I am sick of Mr. Bingley," cried his wife.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

2  To his wife he was very little otherwise indebted, than as her ignorance and folly had contributed to his amusement.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 42

3  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

4  This roused a general astonishment; and he had the pleasure of being eagerly questioned by his wife and his five daughters at once.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

5  He had rather hoped that his wife's views on the stranger would be disappointed; but he soon found out that he had a different story to hear.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

6  "Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you choose," said Mr. Bennet; and, as he spoke, he left the room, fatigued with the raptures of his wife.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

7  On the following Monday, Mrs. Bennet had the pleasure of receiving her brother and his wife, who came as usual to spend the Christmas at Longbourn.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25

8  When Mr. Collins said anything of which his wife might reasonably be ashamed, which certainly was not unseldom, she involuntarily turned her eye on Charlotte.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28

9  He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid she had no knowledge of it.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

10  But the gloom of Lydia's prospect was shortly cleared away; for she received an invitation from Mrs. Forster, the wife of the colonel of the regiment, to accompany her to Brighton.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 41

11  Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

12  Pardon me for interrupting you, madam," cried Mr. Collins; "but if she is really headstrong and foolish, I know not whether she would altogether be a very desirable wife to a man in my situation, who naturally looks for happiness in the marriage state.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20

13  Having now a good house and a very sufficient income, he intended to marry; and in seeking a reconciliation with the Longbourn family he had a wife in view, as he meant to choose one of the daughters, if he found them as handsome and amiable as they were represented by common report.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

14  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

15  They were then, with no other delay than his pointing out the neatness of the entrance, taken into the house; and as soon as they were in the parlour, he welcomed them a second time, with ostentatious formality to his humble abode, and punctually repeated all his wife's offers of refreshment.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28

16  The power of displaying the grandeur of his patroness to his wondering visitors, and of letting them see her civility towards himself and his wife, was exactly what he had wished for; and that an opportunity of doing it should be given so soon, was such an instance of Lady Catherine's condescension, as he knew not how to admire enough.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

17  Lady Lucas began directly to calculate, with more interest than the matter had ever excited before, how many years longer Mr. Bennet was likely to live; and Sir William gave it as his decided opinion, that whenever Mr. Collins should be in possession of the Longbourn estate, it would be highly expedient that both he and his wife should make their appearance at St. James's.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22