Quotes About Regret

If he had any compassion for me' cried her husband impatiently 'he would not have danced half so much! For God's sake, say no more of his partners. Oh! that he sprained his ankle in the first dance!

It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him.

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

Why is he so altered? From what can it proceed? It cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened... It is impossible that he should still love me.

Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face next morning, had she not risen from her bed in more need of repose than when she lay down in it.

I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

Lady Russell had only to listen composedly, and wish them happy, but internally her heart revelled in angry pleasure, in pleased contempt, that the man who at twenty-three had seemed to understand somewhat of the value of an Anne Elliot, should, eight years afterwards, be charmed by a Louisa Musgrove.

She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.

But do not be cast down. Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret

But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.

Ansiaba su estima cuando ya no podía esperar obtenerla; necesitaba oirlo cuando no parecía existir la menor probabilidad de avenencia; estaba convencida de que habría sido dichosa a su lado, cuando no era probable que se produjera un nuevo encuentro entre ambos.

when shall I cease to regret you!—when learn to feel a home elsewhere!

Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it?

Ah! what could we do but what we did! We sighed and fainted on the Sofa.

How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!

I wish with all my soul his wife may plague his heart out.

Si entonces no se acerca a mí, pensaba, me olvidaré de él para siempre.

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. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

I know I shall probably never see him again, but I cannot bear to think that he is alive in the world and thinking ill of me.

Mi afecto y mis anhelos no han variado; pero una palabra suya me hará callar para siempre Mr. Darcy

I wanted to keep it from Jane's knowledge; but, unluckily, I had mentioned it before I was aware.

If he is satisfied with only regretting me, when he might have obtained my affections and hand, I shall soon cease to regret him at all.

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

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.