Quotes About Opinion

Los que no cambian nunca de opinión deben cerciorarse bien antes de juzgar.

After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit the good opinion they had gained in the World, in so doing, by accepting any proposals of reconciliation that might be offered them by their Fathers – to their farther trial of their noble independence however they never were exposed.

No hay nada más engañoso que la apariencia de la humildad. A menudo sólo es carencia de opinión, y a veces una ostentación indirecta.

La vanité et l'orgueil sont choses différentes, bien qu'on emploie souvent ces deux mots l'un pour l'autre ; on peut être orgueilleux sans être vaniteux. L'orgueil se rapporte plus à l'opinion que nous avons de nous-mêmes, la vanité à celle que nous voudrions que les autres aient de nous.

Emma denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

La vanidad y el orgullo son cosas distintas, aunque muchas veces se usen como sinónimos. El orgullo está relacionado con la opinión que tenemos de nosotros mismos; la vanidad, con lo que quisiéramos que los demás pensaran de nosotros. –Si

Don't act yourself, if you do not like it, but don't expect to govern everybody else.

No consigo olvidar las locuras y los vicios de otros tan pronto como debiera, ni las ofensas que se me hacen. Mis sentimientos no se modifican cad vez que se intenta influir sobre ellos. Quizá pueda decirse que tiendo al resentimiento. Cuando pierdo mi buena opinión sobre alguien o algo, perdido está para siempre

Anne wondered whether it ever occurred to him now, to question the justness of his own previous opinion as to the universal felicity and advantage of firmness of character; and whether it might not strike him that, like all other qualities of the mind, it should have its proportions and limits. She

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding—certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well

La arrogancia y el orgullo son cosas muy distintas, aunque a menudo se tomen como sinónimos. Una persona puede ser orgullosa sin ser arrogante. El orgullo se refiere más a nuestra opinión sobre nosotros mismos; la arrogancia, a lo que deseamos que los demás piensen de nosotros.

I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party.

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong.

I suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace censure, you are not judging from yourself, but from prejudiced persons, whose opinions you have been in the habit of hearing. It is impossible that your own observation can have given you much knowledge of the clergy. You can have been personally acquainted with very few of a set of men you condemn so conclusively.

I have no right to give my opinion, said Wickham, as to his being agreeable or otherwise. I am not qualified to form one. I have known him too long and too well to be a fair judge. It is impossible for me to be impartial.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to out opinion of ourselves; vanity to what we would have others think of us.

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

Nada es más engañoso que la apariencia de humildad. Normalmente no es otra cosa que falta de opinión, y a veces es una forma indirecta de vanagloriarse

It was enough to secure his good opinion, for to be unaffected was all that a pretty girl could want to make her mind as captivating as her person.

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what others think of us.

With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be contented; but her own opinion remained the same. It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.

Novels are all so full of nonsense and stuff; there has not been a tolerably decent one come out since Tom Jones, except The Monk; I read that t'other day; but as for all the others, they are the stupidest things in creation.