Quotes from Jane Austen

His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read.

Sus modales eran refinados y su comportamiento ni excesivamente tímido ni afectadamente franco, con lo cual resultaba alegre, bonita y atractiva, sin llamar la atención de cuantos hombres la miraban y (mi parte favorita) sin hacer vehementes demostraciones de contrariedad o de placer cada vez que se presentaba la ocasión de manifestar cualquiera de estos sentimientos. Porque qué lindo es cuando una mujer no es sobreactuada.

He looks miserable poor soul!

Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of gratitude and good behaviour which it ought to produce, and her consciousness of misery was therefore increased by the idea of its being a wicked thing for her not to be happy.

I cannot make speeches, Emma:' he soon resumed, and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing. 'If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Pero mi locura no ha sido el amor sino la vanidad.

Y con facilidad perdonaría su orgullo si no hubiera mortificado el mío.

I do not pretend people in general are without imperfections.

The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and dissipation of unpleasant ideas which only reading could produce made her thankfully turn to a book.

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions;

Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Respect for right conduct is felt by everybody.

In music she had been always used to feel alone in the world.

I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.

Run mad as often as you chuse, but do not faint.

his second... 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.

I cannot say much for this Monarch's Sense--Nor would I if I could, for he was a Lancastrian. I suppose you know all about the Wars between him and the Duke of York who was on the right side; if you do not, you had better read some other History, for I shall not be very difuse in this, meaning by it only to vent my spleen against, and show my Hatred to all those people whose parties or principles do not suit with mine, and not to give information.

Broken hearts, unrequited love and inconsolable misery are subjects which, most fortunately, I have only ever read in books.

My dear Mr. Bennet, replied his wife, how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.

Una persona che sa scrivere una lunga lettera con facilità non può scrivere male.

No more have I, said Mr. Bennet; and I am glad to find that you do not depend on her serving you.

Il y a, je crois, en chacun de nous, un défaut naturel que la meilleure éducation ne peut arriver à faire disparaître.

She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks.' 'I am sorry for that. At her time of life, anything of an illness destroys the bloom for ever!

Everybody allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is pecuiliarly female. Nature may have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.