Quotes from Jane Austen

am sure," she added, "if it was not for such good friends I do not know what would become of her, for she is very ill indeed, and suffers a vast deal, though with the greatest patience in the world, which is always the way with her, for she has, without exception, the sweetest temper I have ever met with.

Jane met her with a smile of such sweet complacency, a glow of such happy expression, as sufficiently marked how well she was satisfied with the occurrences of the evening. Elizabeth instantly read her feelings, and at that moment solicitude for Wickham, resentment against his enemies, and everything else, gave way before the hope of Jane's being in the fairest way for happiness.

I have no pleasure in seeing my friends, unless I can believe myself fit to be seen.

had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

All his wishes centred in domestic comfort and the quiet of private life.

I do not like the studied air and artificial inflexions of voice which your very popular and most admired preachers generally have. A simple delivery is much better calculated to inspire devotion, and shows a much better taste.

nu merita sa il regreti! Si sper ca nu va trece mult timp pana cand vei intelege asta si cu inima, nu doar cu mintea.

Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.

Her tears fell abundantly—but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes—and she listened to her and tried to console her with all her heart and understanding—really for the time convinced that Harriet was the superior creature of the two—and that to resemble her would be more for her own welfare and happiness than all that genius or intelligence could do.

Elinor abandonó sus esfuerzos, dejando que algún día la convenciera de que así eran las cosas lo único que podía llegar a convencerla: un conocimiento más profundo de la humanidad.

He must love somebody.

No, indeed, I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive;

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

PISTOLETTA: Mondd, papa, milyen messze van London? POPGUN: Leányom, aranyom, legkedvesebb gyermekem, két hónapja elhunyt drága anyám hasonmása, akivel Londonba megyek, hogy férjhez adjam Strephonhoz, és akire ráhagyom majd egész vagyonomat, hét mérföldre van innen.

a whole day's tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.

My dear Lizzy, where can you have been walking to? was a question which Elizabeth received from Jane as soon as she entered their room, and from all the others when they sat down to table. She had only to say in reply, that they had wandered about, till she was beyond her own knowledge. She coloured as she spoke; but neither that, nor anything else, awakened a suspicion of the truth. The evening

Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?—to congratulate myself on the hope of relations, whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?

till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud; to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.

Lucy no carece de juicio, y ése es el fundamento sobre el que se puede construir todo lo que es bueno.

But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer-lived; which exactly explains my view of the nature of their attachment. Nay, it would be too hard upon you, if it were otherwise. You have difficulties, and privations, and dangers enough to struggle with... It would be too hard indeed (with a faltering voice) if woman's feelings were to be added to all this!

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.