All 13 Uses of
conscience
in
Sense and Sensibility
- A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.†
Chpt 31conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- I could not have answered it to my conscience to let it fall into any other hands.†
Chpt 33
- Her manners gave some re-assurance to Edward, and he had courage enough to sit down; but his embarrassment still exceeded that of the ladies in a proportion, which the case rendered reasonable, though his sex might make it rare; for his heart had not the indifference of Lucy's, nor could his conscience have quite the ease of Elinor's.†
Chpt 35
- Elinor was very angry, but Marianne seemed entirely insensible of the sting; for she calmly replied, "Not so, indeed; for, seriously speaking, I am very sure that conscience only kept Edward from Harley Street.†
Chpt 35
- And I really believe he HAS the most delicate conscience in the world; the most scrupulous in performing every engagement, however minute, and however it may make against his interest or pleasure.†
Chpt 35
- The expense would be nothing, the inconvenience not more; and it was altogether an attention which the delicacy of his conscience pointed out to be requisite to its complete enfranchisement from his promise to his father.†
Chpt 36
- He saw the necessity of inviting the Miss Steeles immediately, and his conscience was pacified by the resolution of inviting his sisters another year; at the same time, however, slyly suspecting that another year would make the invitation needless, by bringing Elinor to town as Colonel Brandon's wife, and Marianne as THEIR visitor.†
Chpt 36
- Relate only what in your conscience you think necessary for me to hear.†
Chpt 44
- To treat her with unkindness, to speak of her slightingly is no atonement to Marianne—nor can I suppose it a relief to your own conscience.†
Chpt 44
- —Her conscience, her sensitive conscience, would have felt all that the conscience of her husband ought to have felt.†
Chpt 47 *
- —Her conscience, her sensitive conscience, would have felt all that the conscience of her husband ought to have felt.†
Chpt 47
- —Her conscience, her sensitive conscience, would have felt all that the conscience of her husband ought to have felt.†
Chpt 47
- The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.†
Chpt 50
Definition:
feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior