Overhearings Less to the Purpose Quotes

“Colonel Fitzwilliam rubbed his hands together in an evil manner that made Elizabeth rather concerned for Mr. Wickham’s wellbeing.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“assure you, I do not. I would sooner marry my cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam than my Cousin Anne.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Life can be like the happy novels, like the one we read — not like one of the novels with the ghosts behind the curtains.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“He went still, for a moment jealousy came back to him. His Elizabeth had been very enthralled by Wickham. Darcy shook his head, dispelling the demon. She was in his arms, and the way she asked showed she had an implicit trust now and today that his version of the tale would be true.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“am not at present in a mood to give consequence to the choleric complainings of elderly women.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Not you, Darcy — his first name too.” “Ridiculous,” Colonel Fitzwilliam said annoyedly. “No one ever uses his first name.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Oh! Then I would definitely kill him. Arsenic in the coffee.” Anne smiled widely.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Darcy wondered if, if he hoped really hard, that the floor might open up beneath him and his chair, and then ground beneath the house, and maybe he could fall all the way through to China. By the time he returned home from there, he’d be quite ready to face Elizabeth again.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“No woman worth pleasing would be pleased by a man who refused to see her as anything but far below him, and who saw her family as contemptible, and that if he wanted Elizabeth, he must strive to think better of those she loved.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“You know that if there is one thing I despise — and there are many — I despise a lack of punctilious punctuality.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Darcy could not stop thinking, and thinking, and thinking even more about Miss Bennet.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“No, the proper meaning of this story is that happiness comes from knowing when to laugh at oneself.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Happiness comes from stumbling through life and muddling as best one can.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Not at all, not in the slightest — you know Darcy only dines upon the meat of kid goats of precisely seventeen days old, cooked in—”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“All true… Lady Catherine is quite insane. So is Anne — Miss de Bourgh, but Miss de Bourgh is mischievous about it.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Mr. Bennet? Well of course he is at home. Never bothers to go out most days. In his book room, reading Heaven knows what. I dare say it would be a blessing to him to be interrupted if you have any business with him.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Not now, no, not now. I intend to cultivate that habit of the very wealthy of pretending to know nothing of the cost of objects or the amount of money they have, just that it is ‘sufficient.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“What could be a poor reason to marry a rich man? — a paradox.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Anne, I should like that — though I prefer Eliza to Lizzy from all but my parents and sisters.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“How could you ever be happy when Lady Catherine is made to be unhappy? Lady Catherine de Bourgh.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“to help it clink around her waist.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Lady Catherine is as grasping, embarrassing and undesirable as a connection as my mother. It merely is that the possession of great wealth makes everyone pretend they cannot see the vulgarity.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Mr. Bingley. If Mr. Bingley had behaved at all like a man. Like any man worth the salt in his blood would and should, he’d not have left a woman he claimed to love on Mr. Darcy’s recommendation.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“little heartbreak is good for the soul. It teaches cynicism.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Darcy, why are you sprawled like that? Have you been drinking? At this hour? Just like my husband. No matter how I upbraided him, and you may be sure I upbraided him uproariously, he would continue to drink. The entire time he spent in my presence, he was foxed. Every minute, for the last ten years of his life, I believe.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Oooooh,” Anne de Bourgh appeared grinning from where she had hidden behind a set of floor length curtains next to one of the windows.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Yes. The quest to seduce the attractive affections of the fair sex is no task for lily-livered pansies.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Deuced if I know. I merely say it because it sounds very much like the sort of thing a man in our generation, during the Regency of George III, would say.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“A charm school where men could go to learn those skills necessary to the art of appealing to the affections of women.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“man of his age, no matter how cruelly used he has been, with no steady profession, that hardly speaks well for his character.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose