Quotes from Jane Austen

Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Every savage can dance.

mas, sabe, nem todos nascemos com os mesmos poderes... os mesmos modos...

one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half, or always suspecting the other of being worse than it was.

The more I see the world, most dislike, and the time confirms my belief in the inconsistency of human nature and how little can one trust the appearances of goodness or intelligence

Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

I cannot intend anything which it must be so completely beyond my power to command.

That would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate!

poor families in this neighbourhood. She has a large acquaintance, of course professionally

The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.

She was, in fact, beginning very much to wonder that she had ever thought him pleasing at all; and his sight was so inseparably connected with some very disagreeable feelings, that, except in a moral light, as a penance, a lesson, a source of profitable humiliation to her own mind, she would have

A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.

Pero hay algo tan dulce en los prejuicios de una mente joven, que uno llega a sentir pena de ver cómo ceden y les abren paso a opiniones más comunes.

I have often thought them the worst of the two, replied he coolly. Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own; ...it is a paltry device, a very mean art.

ese algo propicio que sirve de consuelo a todos los que cierran los ojos cuando miran, o el entendimiento cuando razonan.

The others returned, the room filled again, benches were reclaimed and re-possessed, and another hour of pleasure or of penance was to be set out, another hour of music was to give delight or the gapes,* as real or affected taste for it prevailed.

it is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as

Bennet would have been very miserable;

It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel in some degree as you do-who have not at least been given a taste for nature in early life. They lose a great deal.

I do so wonder, Miss Woodhouse, that you should not be married, or going to be married! so charming as you are!

A vaidade e o orgulho são coisas diferentes, embora as palavras sejam frequentemente usadas como sinónimos. Uma pessoa pode ser orgulhosa sem ser vaidosa. O orgulho relaciona-se mais com a opinião que temos de nós mesmos, e a vaidade, com o que desejaríamos que os outros pensassem de nós.

Grandeur I detest.

Mas será de outro. E se esse for exactamente aquele, de entre todos os outros, que eu menos suporto... Mas não continuarei aqui, para perder toda a sua piedosa boa vontade, mostrando que onde fui mais magoado, menos posso perdoar. Adeus... Deus a abençoe.

Você me fere a alma: sou meio agonia, meio esperança.