SENTIMENT in Classic Quotes

1  He is totally beyond the reach of any sentiment of justice or compassion.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

2  She only consulted Lady Russell, who entered thoroughly into her sentiments, and was most happy to convey her as near to Mrs Smith's lodgings in Westgate Buildings, as Anne chose to be taken.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17

3  She could not help thinking much of the extraordinary circumstances attending their acquaintance, of the right which he seemed to have to interest her, by everything in situation, by his own sentiments, by his early prepossession.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

4  It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

5  Mrs Clay," said she, warmly, "never forgets who she is; and as I am rather better acquainted with her sentiments than you can be, I can assure you, that upon the subject of marriage they are particularly nice, and that she reprobates all inequality of condition and rank more strongly than most people.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

6  Such were Elizabeth Elliot's sentiments and sensations; such the cares to alloy, the agitations to vary, the sameness and the elegance, the prosperity and the nothingness of her scene of life; such the feelings to give interest to a long, uneventful residence in one country circle, to fill the vacancies which there were no habits of utility abroad, no talents or accomplishments for home, to occupy.

Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1