Quotes About Relationships

Y con facilidad perdonaría su orgullo si no hubiera mortificado el mío.

I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.

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.

No more have I, said Mr. Bennet; and I am glad to find that you do not depend on her serving you.

Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her [Elizabeth].

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

São poucas as pessoas de quem gosto realmente e mais restrito ainda o número daquelas de quem eu faço um bom juízo.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.

By not one of the circle was he listened to with such unbroken, unalloyed enjoyment as by his wife, who was really extremely happy to see him, and whose feelings were so warmed by his sudden arrival as to place her nearer agitation than she had been for the last twenty years. She had been almost fluttered for a few minutes, and still remained so sensibly animated as to put away her work, move Pug from her side, and give all her attention and all the rest of her sofa to her husband.

You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who would make you so.

Mr. Darcy, I could honestly forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.

The indignities of stupidity, and the disappointments of selfish passion, can excite little pity.

Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. [...] Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

I felt that I admired you, but I told myself it was only friendship; and till I began to make comparisons between yourself and Lucy, I did not know how far I was got.

Dear Sir, I must trouble you once more for congratulations. Elizabeth will soon be the wife of Mr. Darcy. Console Lady Catherine as well as you can. But, if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give. Yours sincerely, etc.

Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives.

Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu buen carácter, tu bondad, no podrá embargarme esa dicha. No, no, déjame a mi aire; y, tal vez, si me acompaña la suerte, con el tiempo pueda encontrar a otro señor Collins.

Mr. Darcy drew his chair a little towards her, and said, "You cannot have a right to such very strong local attachment. You cannot have been always at Longbourn." Elizabeth looked surprised. The gentleman experienced some change of feeling; he drew back his chair, took a newspaper from the table, and glancing over it, said, in a colder voice: "Are you pleased with Kent?

It was very well known that no affection was ever supposed to exist between the children of any man by different marriages; and why was he to ruin himself, and their poor little Harry, by giving away all his money to his half sisters?

Não é o tempo ou a oportunidade que determinam a intimidade... é apenas a disposição. Sete anos seriam insuficientes para que algumas pessoas se conhecessem e sete dias são mais que suficientes para outras.

We [women] certainly do not forget you [men] as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

En mi concepto, la buena compañía, señor Elliot, es la de personas inteligentes y bien informadas que puedan conversar de muchas cosas; eso es lo que yo llamo buena compañía