Quotes About Personality

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.

No poseo el talento de otros que pueden conversar con facilidad con quienes nunca han visto. No tengo valor para ello ni puedo adaptarme al carácter de los demás con la facilidad que otros lo hacen.

My being charming…is not quite enough to induce me to marry. I must find other people charming - one other person at least.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed....

She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.

I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

We have not all, you know, the same tenderness of disposition…

She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her.

to say that he is unlike Fanny is enough. It implies everything amiable. I love him already.

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

I should hardly call her a lively girl—she is very earnest, very eager in all she does—sometimes talks a great deal and always with animation—but she is not often really merry.

disposition

His temper might perhaps be a little soured [...]'Mr. Palmer is just the kind of man I like

it is not very wonderful that, with all their promising talents and early information, they should be entirely deficient in the less common acquirements of self-knowledge, generosity and humility. In everything but disposition they were admirably taught.

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.

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.

But Mrs. John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself;—more narrow-minded and selfish.

In essentials I believe Mr. Darcy is very much what he ever was. When I said that he improved on acquaintance, I did not mean that either his mind or manners were in a state of improvement. But that from knowing him better his disposition was better understood.

Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.

My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming—one other person at least.