Opinions

Examples

• How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, her expressions more moderate! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• However opinions may differ on a variety of subjects, I should think it would be universally agreed, Sir Leicester, that I am not much to boast of. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He is leaving the Church on account of his opinions--his doubts would do him no good at Oxford. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Her mind, disposition, opinions, and habits wanted no half-concealment, no self-deception on the present, no reliance on future improvement. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I will give her a system, a method of thought, a set of opinions; I will give her the perfect control and guidance of her feelings. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have at this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Out of experience come warrings, the conflict of opinions and acts within the individual and between individuals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Galileo determined to study the laws of mechanics by experiment, and not, as so many earlier scientists had done, by argument or mere theoretical opinions. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We may compare our different opinions. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Their opinions clashed; and indeed, she had never perceived that he had cared for her opinions, as belonging to her, the individual. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Yes; he has pretended to make my opinions and tastes his own. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In many of his opinions he was an Englishman of the old school, and he hated a foreigner simply and solely because he was a foreigner. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Almost all these gentlemen were in heart partisans of the Emperor, and had their opinions about the speedy end of the campaign. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And I myself prefer serious opinions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There are not two opinions on that head, said Shirley, as she tied on her own bonnet, and then ran to fetch Caroline's. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• That I don't teach his opinions--which he calls spiritual religion; and that I have no time to spare. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• What then can we look for from this confusion of groundless and extraordinary opinions but error and falshood? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• There cannot be two opinions about _him_. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It gave me the most inconsistent opinions of her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Whether they received any pecuniary reward for pleading, or delivering their opinions? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• As far as possible he must confine himself to facts and restrain his opinions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Every respectable Church person had the same opinions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The battleship and one form of cruiser were evolved from the conflicting opinions of two opposite schools of design. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And when one hears good talk one can join in it without compromising any opinions but one's own; or one can listen, and answer it inwardly. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Looking at his face, I longed to know his exact opinions, and at last I put a question tending to elicit them. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Yes, mother, the opinions they are paid for. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Set one of Mrs. Michelson's opinions fairly against the other, he said, and try to be reasonable about a perfectly plain matter. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The old girl, says Mr. Bagnet, is correct--in her way of giving my opinions--hear me out! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mrs. Bardell's opinions of the opposite sex, gentlemen, were derived from a long contemplation of the inestimable qualities of her lost husband. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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