Quotes About Self-awareness

By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…

I'm ill qualified to recommend myself to strangers. Mr. Darcy

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them.

That will just do for me, you know. I shall be sure to say three dull things as soon as ever I open my mouth, shan't I?

To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others

She wanted to be alone. Her mind was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made it impossible for her to be collected. She was in dancing, singing, exclaiming spirits; and till she had moved about, and talked to herself, and laughed and reflected, she could be fit for nothing rational.

How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!

The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself; these were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments. The danger, however, was at present so unperceived, that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her.

Her resentment of such behaviour, her indignation at having been its dupe, for a short time made her feel only for herself.

Era una de esas personas que creen que nada puede ser peligroso, difícil o cansado para nadie, excepto para ellas mismas.

She knows her own worth too well for false shame.

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions;

Alçakgönüllü görünmek kadar aldat?c? hiçbir ÅŸey olamaz. Asl?nda bu ya dikkatsizlik ve umursamazl?kt?r ya da kimi kez gizli övünmedir.

To say the truth,' replied Miss Crawford, 'I am something like the famous Doge at the court of Lewis XIV.; and may declare that I see no wonder in this shrubbery equal to seeing myself in it

In a total misapprehension of character in some point or other; fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

Hay tanto de gratitud o de vanidad en casi todos los defectos, que no es cauto abandonarse de ellos.

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.

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

There is nothing people are so often deceived in, as the state of their own affections.

I am ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.

the only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution of her own better conduct, and the hope that, however inferior in spirit and gaiety might be the following and every future winter of her life to the past, it would yet find her more rational, more acquainted with herself, and leave her less to regret when it were gone.