WOMAN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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1 I do not mean to say that a woman may not be settled too near her family.
2 She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.
3 Lady Lucas was a very good kind of woman, not too clever to be a valuable neighbour to Mrs. Bennet.
4 Lady Catherine was a tall, large woman, with strongly-marked features, which might once have been handsome.
5 You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.
6 The eldest of them, a sensible, intelligent young woman, about twenty-seven, was Elizabeth's intimate friend.
7 The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen.
8 That is all very proper and civil, I am sure," said Mrs. Bennet, "and I dare say she is a very agreeable woman.
9 I had not been long in Hertfordshire, before I saw, in common with others, that Bingley preferred your elder sister to any other young woman in the country.
10 Mrs. Gardiner, who was several years younger than Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Phillips, was an amiable, intelligent, elegant woman, and a great favourite with all her Longbourn nieces.
11 If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark.
12 My dear Jane, Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.
13 Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; but there was a mixture of sweetness and archness in her manner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her.
14 He protested that, except Lady Catherine and her daughter, he had never seen a more elegant woman; for she had not only received him with the utmost civility, but even pointedly included him in her invitation for the next evening, although utterly unknown to her before.
15 The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance; and Miss Lucas, who accepted him solely from the pure and disinterested desire of an establishment, cared not how soon that establishment were gained.
16 My brother admires her greatly already; he will have frequent opportunity now of seeing her on the most intimate footing; her relations all wish the connection as much as his own; and a sister's partiality is not misleading me, I think, when I call Charles most capable of engaging any woman's heart.
17 Mr. Wickham was the happy man towards whom almost every female eye was turned, and Elizabeth was the happy woman by whom he finally seated himself; and the agreeable manner in which he immediately fell into conversation, though it was only on its being a wet night, made her feel that the commonest, dullest, most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the skill of the speaker.
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