Quotes from Jane Austen

Sir Thomas, indeed, was, by this time, not very far from classing Mrs. Norris as one of those well–meaning people who are always doing mistaken and very disagreeable things.

Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

Si entonces no se acerca a mí, pensaba, me olvidaré de él para siempre.

A todos nos gusta dar lecciones, pero sólo enseñamos lo que no merece la pena saber.

Good opinion once lost, is lost forever

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

consequence has its tax;...

Amaba el campo y los libros, y de semejantes aficiones había extraído sus principales goces.

And yet I meant to be uncommonly clever in taking so decided a dislike to him, without any reason. It is such a spur to one's genius, such an opening for wit, to have a dislike of that kind. One may be continually abusive without saying anything just; but one cannot always be laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Há uma teimosia em mim que nunca pode suportar a ser assustado com a vontade dos outros. Minha coragem sempre aumenta a cada tentativa de me intimidar.

Emma; but you must think him agreeable. Can you lay your hand on your heart, and say you do not? - Indeed I can, Both Hands; and spread to their widest extent.

He had never been an unhappy man; his own temper had secured him from that, even in his first marriage; but his second must shew him how delightful a well-judging and truly amiable woman could be, and must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it. He

Her word had no weight; her convenience was always to give way.

there are very few of us that do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary

it was rather because she felt less happy than she had expected.  She laughed because she was disappointed…

The removal of one solicitude generally makes way for another.

This was invitation enough.

There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Hay una especie de terquedad en mí, que nunca me permite que me intimide nadie. Por el contrario, mi valor crece cuando alguien intenta intimidarme.

Absence with the conviction probably of her indifference, had produced this very natural and desirable effect.

You might not see one in a hundred with gentleman so plainly written as in Mr. Knightley.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before;

When I am in the country, I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town It is pretty much the same. They have each their advantages, and I can be equally happy in either.

Everything nourishes what is strong already.