Quotes from Jane Austen

He shortly found himself arrived at politics; and from politics it was an easy step to silence.

only Miss Mainwaring; who, coming to town, and putting herself to an expense in clothes which impoverished her for two years, on purpose to secure him, was defrauded of her due by a woman ten years older than herself.

The mind which does not struggle against itself under one circumstance, would find objects to distract it in the other...

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can.

les gens changent tellement qu'il ya toujours du nouveau à observer.

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong.

Ihr seid beide so nachgiebig, daß ihr nie zu einem Entschluß kommen werdet, so gutgläubig, daß euch alle Dienstboten übers Ohr hauen, und so freigebig, daß ihr ständig eure Einkünfte übersteigen werdet.

Sólo el amor más profundo me hará contraer matrimonio es por eso por lo que terminaré soltera.

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. 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.

Her figure was elegant, and she walked well; but Darcy, at whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious.

Estoy cansada de someter mis deseos a los caprichos de los demás, de no seguir los dictámenes de mi propio juicio en deferencia a los que nada debo y que no me infunden respeto. He

And I do envy him, Emma. In one respect he is the object of my envy.

though every glance convinced her of what she dreaded; for though he was not always looking at her mother, she was convinced that his attention was invariably fixed by her. The expression of his face changed gradually from indignant contempt to a composed and steady gravity.

Conviene que de vez en cuando los jóvenes se vean obligados a pensar por sí mismos y a obrar con libertad.

Cuando un párrafo está bien escrito es un placer leerlo, sea de quien sea y proceda de donde proceda, quizá con mayor placer siendo su verdadero autor Mr. Hume o el doctor Robertson y no Caractus, Agrícola o Alfredo el Grande.

How many an evening one could spend in this manner! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading, when I am grown and have a house of my own I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.

Creo [...] que todo hombre debe trabajar en alguna cosa. El dinero en sí no tiene importancia ni finalidad algunas; lo importante es emplear dignamente el tiempo.

It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression, but their colour and shape, and the eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might be copied.

Emma - faultless, in spite of her faults

I suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace censure, you are not judging from yourself, but from prejudiced persons, whose opinions you have been in the habit of hearing. It is impossible that your own observation can have given you much knowledge of the clergy. You can have been personally acquainted with very few of a set of men you condemn so conclusively.

It taught me to hope,' said he, 'as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

Confía en lo que sientes en tu corazón mientras te halles lejos de mí.