Quotes About Appreciation

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, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.

Recuerde sólo en el pasado aquello que le sea grato.

He understands muslin

But now you love a hyacinth. So much the better. You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

No! Thank you for thinking I am thoughtful.

She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

If a book is well written i would find it too short.

I admire all my three sons-in-law highly. Wickham, perhaps is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane's.

But your good opinion is rarely bestowed and therefore more worth the earning.

and the more I saw, the more I found to admire.

If a book is well written i always find it too short

Qualquer pessoa, seja homem ou mulher, que não souber apreciar um bom romance deve ser insuportavelmente estúpido.

for I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value is our estimation.

his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

The navy, I think, who have done so much for us, have at least an equal claim with any other set of men, for all the comforts and all the privileges which any home can give. Sailors work hard enough for their comforts, we must all allow.

And while the abilities of the nine–hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens — there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.

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.

No sé, todavía qué es lo que separa el aprecio del amor.

With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them.

Here Catherine secretly acknowledged the power of love; for, though exceedingly fond of her brother, and partial to all his endowments, she had never in her life thought him handsome.

If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.