Quotes About Relationships

Any thing interests between those who love; and any thing will serve as introduction to what is near the heart

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions.

General uncivility is the very essence of love.

At his own ball he offended two or three young ladies, by not asking them to dance; and I spoke to him twice myself, without receiving an answer. Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Even Elizabeth began to fear—not that Bingley was indifferent—but that his sisters would be successful in keeping him away. Unwilling as she was to admit an idea so destructive

CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN

So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense. I

She was guilty only of being less rich than he had supposed her to be. Under a mistaken persuasion of her possessions and claims, he had courted her acquaintance in Bath, solicited her company at Northanger, and designed her for his daughter-in-law. On discovering his error, to turn her from the house seemed the best, though to his feelings an inadequate proof of his resentment towards herself, and his contempt of her family.

El hecho de que Lady Russell, de muy buena edad y agradable carácter, y en circunstancias ideales para ello, no hubiese querido pensar en segundas nupcias, no tiene por qué ser explicado al público, que está tan dispuesto a sentirse irracionalmente descontento cuando una mujer no se vuelve a casar.

Desejo à sua irmã a maior felicidade do mundo; e a Willoughby: Desejo que tente merecê-la.

No creo que ninguna de mis hijas vaya a incomodar al señor Willoughby con intentos de atraparlo. No es una ocupación para la que hayan sido criadas. Los hombres están muy a salvo con nosotras, sin importar cuán ricos sean.

and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

Las Dashwood eran demasiado lúcidas para ser buena compañía para Lady Middleton.

Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

I have often thought them the worst of the two, replied he coolly. Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

No es el tiempo ni la ocasión los que determinan la intimidad; es sólo el carácter, la disposición de las personas. Siete años podrían no bastar para que dos seres se conocieran bien, y siete días son más que suficientes para otros.

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle—

There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself.

We can all begin freely — a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. In nine cases out of ten a women had better show more affection than she feels.

He then went away, and Miss Bingley was left to all the satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no one any pain but herself.

Edmund only took Fanny because Mary shocked him, and that Fanny might very likely have taken Crawford if he had been a little more assiduous; yet the matchless rehearsal-scenes and the characters of Mrs. Norris and others have secured, I believe, a considerable party for it. Sense and Sensibility has perhaps the

Die eine Hälfte der Menschheit hat für das Vergnügen der anderen Hälfte kein Verständnis.

But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.