Quotes from Jane Austen

The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself;

We will know where we have gone - we will recollect what we have seen.

but angry people are not always wise;

If I endeavor to undeceive people as to the rest of his conduct, who will believe me? The general prejudice against Mr. Darcy is so violent that it would be the death of half the good people in Meryton, to attempt to place him in an amiable light. -Chapter 7

If you are content to be simply yourself and do not compare or compete, everyone will respect you

Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a turn about the room. I assure you it is very refreshing after sitting so long in one attitude.

Even Elizabeth began to fear—not that Bingley was indifferent—but that his sisters would be successful in keeping him away. Unwilling as she was to admit an idea so destructive

She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

dance with him." "His pride," said Miss Lucas, "does not offend me so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it. One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself. If I may so express it, he has a right to be proud.

Nothing could be more impossible than to answer such a question, though nothing could be more agreeable than to have it asked. "How

si realmente hubiese sentido esa pasión pura y elevada del amor, detestaría hasta su nombre y le desearía los mayores males.

but his friend Mr Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features

of large fortune from the north of England; that he came

Usted es demasiado generosa para jugar con mis sentimientos. Si los suyos siguen siendo los mismos del pasado abril, dígamelo en seguida. Mi afecto y mis deseos no han cambiado, pero una palabra suya me silenciará para siempre

This was a lucky recollection — it saved her from something very like regret.

Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humoured, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.

There is no disputing about taste.

Gostar dele! - replicou a sua mãe com um sorriso. - Não consigo sentir nenhum sentimento de aprovação inferior ao amor. - Pode estimá-lo. - Ainda não descobri como separar a estima do amor. Mrs. Dashwood

it was overwhelmed, buried, lost in those earlier feelings which I had been smarting under year after year. I could only think of you as one who had yielded, who had given me up....

What made you so shy of me, when you first called, and afterwards dined here? Why especially, when you called, did you look as if you did not care about me? Because you were grave and silent, and gave no encouragement. But I was embarrassed And so was I. You might have talked to me more when you came to dinner A man who had felt less, might.

when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in

My mother looks forward with as much certainty as you can do to our keeping two maids; my father is the only one not in the secret. We plan having a steady cook and a young giddy housemaid, with a sedate, middle-aged man, who is to undertake the double office of husband to the former and sweetheart to the latter. No children of course to be allowed on either side.

CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN

Though always objecting to every marriage that was arranged, he never suffered beforehand from the apprehension of any; it seemed as if he could not think so ill of any two persons' understanding as to suppose they meant to marry till it were proved against them.