Quotes from Jane Austen

Resignation to inevitable evils is the evil duty of us all; the peculiar duty of a young man who has been so fortunate as I have been in early preferment; and I trust I am resigned.

It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and ... the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

Elizabeth, that for some time all intercourse was at an end. But at length, by Elizabeth's persuasion, he was prevailed on to overlook the offence, and seek a reconciliation; and, after a little further resistance on the part of his aunt, her resentment gave way, either to her affection for him, or her curiosity to see how his wife conducted herself; and she

Acusaba la falta de su compañía cada día y casi a todas horas, y la necesitaba demasiado para sentir otra cosa que no fuese irritación

I am quite uneasy about your dear brother, not having heard from him since he went to Oxford; and am fearful of some misunderstanding. Your kind offices will set all right: he is the only man I ever did or could love, and I trust you will convince him of it.

Canciones y proverbios, todo habla de la fragilidad femenina. Pero quizá diga usted que todos han sido escritos por hombres. - Quizá lo diga... Pero, por favor, no ponga ningún ejemplo de libros. Los hombres han tenido todas la ventaja sobre nosotras al contar ellos la historia. La educación de ellos ha sido mucho más completa; la pluma ha estado en sus manos. No permitiré que los libros me prueben nada. (p. 259)

here you are in Bath, and

A fine preacher is followed and admired;

If a young girl does not find adventure at home, then she must look for it abroad.

How much I shall have to tell! Elizabeth added privately, And how much I shall have to conceal!

she could still moralize over every morning visit; and as she was no longer mortified by comparisons between her sisters' beauty and her own, it was suspected by her father that she submitted to the change without much reluctance.

Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes. I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the

To have been described long ago to a recent acquaintance by nameless people is irresistible.

Heaven forbid! that would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find a man agreeable whom on is determined to hate! Do not wish me such an evil.

Mrs. Weston was exceedingly disappointed -- much more disappointed, in fact, than her husband, though her dependence on seeing the young man had been so much more sober: but 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.

Así, de manera sosegada, sin gran interés por ninguna de las partes, siguieron hablando, ambos desalentados y con la cabeza puesta en otras cosas.

I cannot quite agree with you there.

A strong sense of duty is no bad part of a woman's portion

There was not one among the whole row of young men who could be compared with him.

Kad?nlar?n hayal gücü çok h?zl?; bir anda beÄŸeniden aÅŸka, aÅŸktan evliliÄŸe s?çr?yor.

You speak too plain. She must understand you.' 'I hope she does. I would have her understand me. I am not in the least ashamed of my meaning.

There is no enjoyment like reading!

But Mr. Bennet was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own imprudence had brought on in any of those pleasures which too often console the unfortunate for their folly or their vice.

I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning.