Quotes from Jane Austen

He paid her only the compliment of attention; and she felt a respect for him on the occasion, which the others had reasonably forfeited by their shameless want of taste.

I should indefinitely prefer a book.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.

Me! returned Elinor in some confusion; indeed, Marianne, I have nothing to tell. Nor I, answered Marianne with energy, our situations then are alike. We have neither of us anything to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing. (27.17)

Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?

Todos debemos procurar estar satisfechos allí donde nos encontremos, y más aún en nuestro propio hogar, que es donde más tiempo estamos obligados a permanecer.

Credo che in ogni temperamento vi sia una tendenza a qualche male particolare, un difetto di natura che neanche la migliore educazione riesce a vincere.

Faktanya adalah, kau sudah lelah menerima kesopanan, kehormatan, dan perhatian yang berlebihan. Kau sudah muak dengan para wanita yang berbicara, memandang, dan berusaha keras untuk mencari persetujuan darimu. Lalu aku datang, dan kau langsung tertarik karena aku sangat berbeda dari mereka.

how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her family cares, is still more a matter of astonishment! Composition seems to me impossible with a head full of joints of mutton and doses of rhubarb.

had you behaved in a more gentleman like manner!

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

I do not have the talent of conversing easily with people I have never met before.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Of music! Then pray speak aloud. It is of all subjects my delight. I must have my share in the conversation if you are speaking of music. There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

Catherine- How I hate the sight of an umbrella! Mrs. Allen- They are disagreeable things to carry. I would much rather take a chair at any time.

Mrs. Allen was one of that numerous class of females, whose society can raise no other emotion than surprise at there being any men in the world who could like them well enough to marry them. She had neither beauty, genius, accomplishment, nor manner.

Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what to do; without any approach to coarseness, however, or any want of good humour. Anne gave her credit, indeed, for feelings of great consideration towards herself, in all that related to Kellynch; and it pleased her.

Te aseguro que no soy de las que quieren a medias. Mis sentimientos siempre son profundos y arraigados...

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment

Tidak ada yang lebih menipu daripada kerendahan hati. Seringkali itu hanya menjadi ungkapan semata, dan terkadang justru disampaikan untuk menyombongkan diri secara diam-diam.

and yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. (Colonel Brandon)

She looked down very decidedly upon the Hayters