Quotes About Jane Austen

Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him, and have his library to himself

You have bewitched my body and soul, and I love, I love you. -Mr. Darcy

There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathized with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanour, and a general want of understanding.

For six weeks, I allow Bath is pleasant enough; but beyond that, it is the most tiresome place in the world.

She thought it could scarcely escape him to feel that a persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

Te equivocas, querida. Les tengo mucho respeto a tus nervios. Son viejos amigos míos. Hace por lo menos veinte años que te oigo mencionarlos con mucha consideración.

But her mind had never been in such perturbation; and it needed a very strong effort to appear attentive and cheerful till the usual hour of separating allowed her the relief of quiet reflection.

She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.

As reflexões deviam ser reservadas para as horas solitárias; sempre que podia, entregava-se a elas com alívio; e não se passava um dia sem uma de suas caminhadas, nas quais podia se entregar ao prazer das lembranças desagradáveis.

All badinage apart, I don't think you or I very likely to lose our gaiety or our peace of mind for any male creature breathing.

Oh! my dear Mr. Bennet, as she entered the room, we have had a most delightful

I well know the sight of beauty is a real gratification.

I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Elinor agreed to it; she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Indeed she had no taste for a garden; and if she gathered flowers at all, it was chiefly for the pleasure of mischief—at least so it was conjectured from her always preferring those which she was forbidden to take.

How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth; and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his for ever. Their

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of.

But here she did injustice to the fire and independence of his character, for it led him to escape out of Longbourn House the next morning with admirable slyness, and hasten to Lucas Lodge to throw himself at her feet.

Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society;

endeavours to separate us were the means of removing all my doubts.

los bondadosos deseos de prosperidad expresados por todas las malévolas ancianas de Meryton apenas

two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper

advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great.

Resignation to inevitable evils is the evil duty of us all; the peculiar duty of a young man who has been so fortunate as I have been in early preferment; and I trust I am resigned.