Quotes from Jane Austen

Nadie se muere por un resfriado. Pero puede morir de vergüenza por tener tal madre.

A straightforward, open-hearted man like Weston, and a rational, unaffected woman like Miss Taylor, may be safely left to manage their own concerns. You are more likely to have done harm to yourself, than good to them, by interference." "Emma never thinks of herself, if she can do good to others," rejoined Mr. Woodhouse, understanding but in part. "But, my dear, pray do not make any more matches; they are silly things, and break up one's family circle grievously.

Què agradable es pasar la tarde así!En mi opinión, no hay mayor placer que la lectura. En compañía de un libro uno se aburre mucho menos. Cuando tenga casa propia me creeré muy desgraciada si no poseo una excelente biblioteca.

These are the sights, Harriet, to do one good. How trifling they make every thing else appear!---I feel now as if I could think of nothing but these poor creatures all the rest of the day; and yet, who can say how soon it may all vanish from my mind?

Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well.

Mrs. Jennings wrote to tell the wonderful tale, to vent her honest indignation against the jilting girl, and pour forth her compassion towards poor Mr. Edward, who, she was sure, had quite doted upon the worthless hussy...

Mr. Knightley, a sensible man about seven or eight-and-thirty, was not only a very old and intimate friend of the family, but particularly connected with it, as the elder brother of Isabella's husband.

I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

But to expose the former faults of any person without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.

My dearest Emma, for that is what you always have been and you always will be, my most beloved Emma. I cannot make speeches. If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more(...)

She found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

Mrs. Parker was as evidently a gentle, amiable, sweet-tempered woman, the properest wife in the world for a man of strong understanding but not of a capacity to supply the cooler reflection which her own husband sometimes needed; and so entirely waiting to be guided on every occasion that whether he was risking his fortune or spraining his ankle, she remained equally useless.

No todas nos podemos dar el lujo de ser románticas.

My protegé, as you call him, is a sensible man; and sense will always have attraction for me. Yes, Marianne, even in a man between thirty and forty. He has seen a great deal of the world; has been abroad; has read, and has a thinking mind. I have found him capable of giving me much information on various subjects, and he has always answered my inquiries with the readiness of good-breeding and good nature.

every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason.

It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.

Admiro a quien descubrió la eficacia de la poesía para estimular el amor. —En mi opinión, la poesía ha sido siempre el alimento del amor —dijo Darcy.

Engaged to Mr. Collins! My dear Charlotte—impossible!

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing. Forgive me; and if you persist in indifference, do not make me your confidante.

no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

It makes me very nervous and poorly,to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else. However, your coming just at this time is the greatest of comforts, and I am very glad to hear what you tell us, of long sleeves.

He had caught both substance and shadow — both fortune and affection, and was just the happy man he ought to be.

I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance, Importance may sometimes be purchased too dearly.

Her mind was quite determined and varied not.