Quotes from Jane Austen

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

With such warm feelings and lively spirits it must be difficult to do justice to her affection for Mrs. Crawford, without throwing a shade on the Admiral.

were I rich enough, I would instantly pull Combe down, and build it up again in the exact plan of this cottage.' 'With dark narrow stairs, and a kitchen that smokes, I suppose,' said Elinor.

Seldom, very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken; but where, as in this case, though the conduct is mistaken, the feelings are not, it may not be very material.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the

had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters

If therefore she actually persists in rejecting my suit, perhaps it were better not to force her into accepting me, because if liable to such defects of temper, she could not contribute much to my felicity.

Soy un hombre decepcionado y mi estado de ánimo no soportaría la soledad.

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You know what he thinks of Cowper and Scott;

a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. It soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

No parecía haber pobreza de ninguna clase, excepto en la conversación...

She had used him ill, deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure. She had given him up to oblige others. It had been the effect of over-persuasion. It had been weakness and timidity.

I shall be very well off, with all the children of a sister I love so much, to care about. There will be enough of them, in all probability to supply every sort of sensation that declining life can need - Emma Woodhouse

Oh! certainly," cried his faithful assistant, "no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. "And yours," he replied with a smile,"is willfully to misunderstand them.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone.

To Pemberley, therefore, they were to go. END

Un carácter complejo no tiene qué ser más o menos estimable que uno como el suyo.

It is not my way to bother my brains with what does not concern me. My notion of things is simple enough. Let me only have the girl I like, say I, with a comfortable house over my head, and what care I for all the rest? Fortune is nothing. I am sure of a good income of my own; and if she had not a penny, why, so much the better.

When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous.

Seguramente si nuestro afecto es recíproco, nuestros corazones se entenderán. No somos un par de chiquillos para guardar una irritada reserva, ser mal dirigidos por la inadvertencia de algún momento o jugar como con un fantasma con nuestra propia felicidad.

La imaginación de una dama va muy rápido y salta de la admiración al amor y del amor al matrimonio en un momento