REGRET in Classic Quotes

1  The time may come when Harry will regret that so large a sum was parted with.

Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2

2  When they were seated in the dining room, Sir John observed with regret that they were only eight all together.

Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20

3  They afforded her no companion that could make amends for what she had left behind, nor that could teach her to think of Norland with less regret than ever.

Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11

4  Nothing occurred during the next three or four days, to make Elinor regret what she had done, in applying to her mother; for Willoughby neither came nor wrote.

Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 28

5  Every thing in her household arrangements was conducted on the most liberal plan, and excepting a few old city friends, whom, to Lady Middleton's regret, she had never dropped, she visited no one to whom an introduction could at all discompose the feelings of her young companions.

Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27

6  When Sir John returned, he joined most heartily in the general regret on so unfortunate an event; concluding however by observing, that as they were all got together, they must do something by way of being happy; and after some consultation it was agreed, that although happiness could only be enjoyed at Whitwell, they might procure a tolerable composure of mind by driving about the country.

Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13