REASON in Classic Quotes

1  I have no reason, I assure you," said he, "to be dissatisfied with my reception.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

2  But, depend upon it, Mr. Collins," she added, "that Lizzy shall be brought to reason.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20

3  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

4  We are not on friendly terms, and it always gives me pain to meet him, but I have no reason for avoiding him but what I might proclaim before all the world, a sense of very great ill-usage, and most painful regrets at his being what he is.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

5  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

6  Mr. Collins received and returned these felicitations with equal pleasure, and then proceeded to relate the particulars of their interview, with the result of which he trusted he had every reason to be satisfied, since the refusal which his cousin had steadfastly given him would naturally flow from her bashful modesty and the genuine delicacy of her character.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20