Quotes from Jane Austen

La capacidad de hacer algo con presteza es siempre muy elogiada por su poseedor, quien a menudo no advierte la imperfección que lo acompaña.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy - it's disposition alone.

the history; that was the glory of Miss

for they say every body is in love once in their lives

Donvel je bio poznat po jagodama, koje su bile izgovor za poziv; ali nikakav izgovor nije bio potreban; ovu damu bi i kupus namamio jer je samo želela da nekuda ide.

Siempre había mariposeado, sin ningún objeto fijo.

Well, he certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person. Dear Lizzy!

A letter exposes to all the evil of consultation, and where the mind is anything short of perfect decision, an adviser may, in an unlucky moment, lead it to do what it may afterwards regret.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it.

There is no other enjoyment like reading

I do not believe Mrs. Long will do any such thing. She has two nieces of her own. She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her.

A história, a história solene e real, não me interessa nada. E a si? - Eu adoro a história. - Como a invejo! Li um pouco de história, por dever; mas nela só encontro motivos de irritação ou de aborrecimento: querelas de papas e de reis, guerras e pestes em cada página, homens que não valem grande coisa, e quase nenhumas mulheres - é muito fastidioso!

They stood for some time without speaking a word; and she began to imagine that their silence was to last through the two dances, and at first was resolved not to break it; till suddenly fancying that it would be the greater punishment to her partner to oblige him to talk, she made some slight observation on the dance.

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love, said Darcy. Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already.

Kini mereka praktis adalah orang asing, bukan, malah lebih buruk daripada orang asing, sebab mereka bahkan tidak bisa bergaul layaknya kenalan anyar. Akan selalu ada jarak di antara mereka.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful

And be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his for ever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

La juventud y el buen humor de la mañana forman una feliz analogía, de poderosos efectos; y si la alteración no es lo bastante fuerte como para mantener los ojos sin cerrar, seguro que estos se abrirán a una sensación de dolor suavizado y a una esperanza más clara.

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.

Egli osservò: "La segregazione le dona, le fa bene e conferisce molta più distinzione al dolore! Uno di questi giorni farò lo stesso anch'io: mi chiuderò col berretto da notte e la vestaglia, dando più disturbo che potrò... Forse, posso rimandare tutto questo a quando scapperà Kitty...".

The dread of being awakened from the happiest dream, was perhaps the most prominent feeling.

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

In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton. The attention of the younger ones was then no longer to be gained by him. Their eyes were immediately wandering up in the street in quest of the officers, and nothing less than a very smart bonnet indeed, or a really new muslin in a shop window, could recall them.

My dear Jane! You are too good. Your sweetness and disinterestedness are really angelic: I do not know what to say to you. I feel as if I had never done you justice, or loved you as you deserve.