Quotes from Jane Austen

It is very unfair to judge of any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

Now I have done, cried Captain Wentworth. When once married people begin to attack me with,--`Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married.' I can only say, `No, I shall not;' and then they say again, `Yes, you will,' and there is an end of it.

An hour's complete leisure for such reflections as these, on a dark November day, a small thick rain almost blotting out the very few objects ever to be discerned from the windows...

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

I will read you their names directly; here they are in my pocket-book. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. Those will last us some time. ' '...but are they all horrid? Are you sure they are all horrid?' 'Yes, quite sure; for a particular friend of mine, a Miss Andrews, a sweet girl, one of the sweetest creatures in the world, has read every one of them.

He was a blessing to all the juvenile part of the neighbourhood, for in summer he was for ever forming parties to eat cold ham and chicken out of doors, and in winter his private balls were numerous enough for any young lady who was not suffering under the insatiable appetite of fifteen.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

She always declares she will never marry, which, of course, means just nothing at all. But I have no idea that she has yet ever seen a man she cared for. It would not be a bad thing for her to be very much in love with a proper object. I should like to see Emma in love, and in some doubt of a return; it would do her good. But there is nobody hereabouts to attach her; and she goes so seldom from home.

it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

C?ci a fi natural? era pentru o fa?? dr?gu?? calitatea prin care spiritul ei devenea tot atât de atr?g?tor ca fiinÈ›a ei.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

Hubiera podido fácilmente perdonar su orgullo, si no hubiera sido porque se metió con el mío Elizabeth Bennet.

by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family!

La arrogancia y el orgullo son cosas muy distintas, aunque a menudo se tomen como sinónimos. Una persona puede ser orgullosa sin ser arrogante. El orgullo se refiere màs a nuestra opinión sobre nosotros mismos; la arrogancia, a lo que deseamos que los demás piensen de nosotros.

Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to consider it, and certainty itself.

Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much on the subject.

disposition

I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence.

Ah! what could we do but what we did! We sighed and fainted on the Sofa.

el esfuerzo debe ser proporcional a lo que se pretende.

My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

Poor Edward muttered something; but what it was, nobody knew, not even himself.

His temper might perhaps be a little soured [...]'Mr. Palmer is just the kind of man I like