Quotes About Social

Darcy had walked away to another part of the room. She followed him with her eyes, envied everyone to whom he spoke, had scarcely patience enough to help anybody to coffee; and then was enraged against herself for being so silly!

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty, said he, as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they often employ is only to be equalled by the folly of what they have in view.

I do not believe a word of it, my dear. If he had been so very agreeable, he would have talked to Mrs. Long. But I can guess how it was; everybody says that he is eat up with pride, and I dare say he had heard somehow that Mrs. Long does not keep a carriage, and had come to the ball in a hack chaise.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of someone or other of their

In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

But consider your daughters. Only think what an establishment it would be for one of them. Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined

Reconozco que no tengo la habilidad que otros poseen de conversar fácilmente con las personas que jámas han visto. No puedo fingir que me intereso por sus cosas como se acostumbra.

Since her being at Lambton, she had heard that Miss Darcy was exceedingly proud; but the observation of a very few minutes convinced her that she was only exceedingly shy.

The effect was immediate. A deeper shade of hauteur overspread his features, but he said not a word, and Elizabeth, though blaming herself for her own weakness, could not go on. At length Darcy spoke, and in a constrained manner said, "Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends — whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.

ABOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton,* and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady,* with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All

Para qué vivimos sino para entretener a nuestros vecinos y reírnos de ellos a la vez?

I long to have you hear Mr. H.'s opinion of P. and P. His admiring my Elizabeth so much is particularly welcome to me.

The nonsense and folly of people's stepping out of their rank and trying to appear above themselves, makes me think it right to give you a hint

I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals." (10)

Yet oil had already become so essential to modern life that in 1873 the Titusville Morning Herald proclaimed: The production of petroleum has now become of such commercial and social importance to the world that if it were suddenly to cease no other known substance could supply its place, and such an event could not be looked upon in any other light than of a widespread calamity.

But like our intellect, social media in itself is neither good nor bad—it is the use to which we put it that counts.

Spring, about the horrific damage caused by the use of DDT." "That book really did help start a movement," I agreed. "The right book or the right film at the right time really can change the culture. Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is another example. Books like Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy have

Dorothea sniffed and looked around the room, her distaste clear. "Try to be polite, Mother," Marjorie said. "I am always polite." "Then try to be nice.

Broadbent-Keeble, a respected pediatrician, came on a social call to visit Timothy

Our difficulty is no longer how to contain people densely in metropolitan areas and avoid the ravages of disease, bad sanitation and child labor. To go on thinking in these terms is anachronistic. Our difficulty today is rather how to contain people in metropolitan areas and avoid the ravages of apathetic and helpless neighborhoods.

Cities are full of people with whom, from your viewpoint, or mine, or any other individual's, a certain degree of contact is useful or enjoyable; but you do not want them in your hair. And they do not want you in theirs either.

They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.

What I have said about viruses applies to all biological life. Viruses are "highly intelligent" — meaning that they react quickly to stimuli. They are responsive to emotional states. They are social. Their scale of life varies considerably, and some can be