Quotes from Jane Austen

As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit.

Bueno, alguna vez fui joven, pero nunca fui muy guapa... mala suerte para mí. No obstante, me conseguí un muy buen esposo, y vaya a saber usted si la mayor de las bellezas puede hacer más que eso.

And you have taught me a hard, but most advantageous lesson. I now see that I have been proud. I owe you so much for showing me that.

James Benwick is rather too piano for me;

hearing it. This was invitation enough. Why, my dear, you

Las proporciones corporales y el pesar no deben guardar necesariamente relación. El cuerpo macizo tiene tanto derecho a estar profundamente afligido como el más gracioso conjunto de miembros finos. Pero, justo o no, hay cosas irreconciliables que la razón tratará de justificar en vano

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen is to do pretty well;

Lydia was Lydia still; untamed, unabashed, wild, noisy, and fearless.

All this she must possess», added Darcy, «and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading».

Yes; these four evenings have enabled them to ascertain that they both like Vingt-un better than Commerce;

Yo siempre he considerado que la poesía es el alimento del amor –dijo Darcy. –De un gran amor, sólido y fuerte, puede. Todo nutre a lo que ya es fuerte de por sí. Pero si es solo una inclinación ligera, sin ninguna base, un buen soneto la acabaría matando de hambre.

own disposition; and after having

Good God! Willloughby, what is the meaning of this? -Marianne Dashwood

I am not now to learn, replied Mr. Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second or even a third time. I am therefore by no means discouraged by what you have just said, and shall hope to lead you to the altar ere long.

I honour your circumspection. A fortnight's acquaintance is certainly very little. One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight. But if we do not venture somebody else will; and after all, Mrs. Long and her daughters must stand their chance; and, therefore, as she will think it an act of kindness, if you decline the office, I will take it on myself.

Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?" "Both," replied Elizabeth archly; "for I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds. We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Cuando la mente no quiere convencerse, siempre encontrará algo en qué sustentar sus dudas.

should infinitely prefer a book.

Silakan, pegang tangan saya. Betul, begitu. Rasanya tidak enak jika tidak ada perempuan yang menggamit tangan saya.

She was deep in the happiness of such misery, or the misery of such happiness, instantly.

All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

Mr. Collins and Lizzy. Lizzy declares she will not have Mr. Collins, and Mr. Collins begins to say that he will not have Lizzy. And what am I to do on the occasion?—It seems an hopeless business.

Može li iko upoznati ne?iju narav u Batu, ili na kojem drugom javnom mestu... Sve je to ništavno; ne može se tako ništa znati. Samo kada ?ovek vidi ženu u njenom domu, me?u njenim prijateljima, onakvu kakva je uvek. Tek onda može da stekne ispravno mišljenje. Sve drugo je sre?a i naga?anje - a ?esto se ispostavi da je zla sre?a.