Quotes About Sincerity

You need not hurry when the object is only to prevent my saying a bon mot, for there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter-of-fact, plain-spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

Emma; but you must think him agreeable. Can you lay your hand on your heart, and say you do not? - Indeed I can, Both Hands; and spread to their widest extent.

Te aseguro que no soy de las que quieren a medias. Mis sentimientos siempre son profundos y arraigados...

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment

Tidak ada yang lebih menipu daripada kerendahan hati. Seringkali itu hanya menjadi ungkapan semata, dan terkadang justru disampaikan untuk menyombongkan diri secara diam-diam.

Elinor, cried Marianne, is this fair? is this just? are my ideas so scanty? But I see what you mean. I have been too much at my ease, too happy, too frank. I have erred against every common-place notion of decorum; I have been open and sincere where I ought to have been reserved, spiritless, dull, and deceitful:- had I talked only of the weather and the roads, and had I spoken only once in ten minutes, this reproach would have been spared.

I cannot make speeches, Emma:"—he soon resumed, and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing. "If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

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

Ella sentía que podía confiar mucho más en la sinceridad de aquellos que en alguna ocasión podían decir alguna cosa descuidada o alguna ligereza, que en aquellos cuya presencia de ánimo jamás sufría alteraciones, cuya lengua jamás se deslizaba.

I cannot make speeches, Emma:' he soon resumed, and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing. 'If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

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

Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere.

convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication.

I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature

Intuía que se podía confiar mucho mas en la sinceridad de las personas que a veces parecían o decían cosas imprudentes o precipitadas, que en la de aquellas cuyo estado de ánimo nunca se alteraba, a quienes nunca se les iba la lengua

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

He had found her agitated and low. Frank Churchill was a villain. He heard her declare that she had never loved him. Frank Churchill's character was not desperate. She was his own Emma, by hand and word, when they returned into the house; and if he could have thought of Frank Churchill then, he might have deemed him a very good sort of fellow.

Fingir candor es algo bastante corriente, se ve en todas partes. Pero ser cándido sin ostentación ni premeditación, quedarse con lo bueno de cada uno, mejorarlo aun, y no decir nada de lo malo, eso sólo lo haces tú.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other? Emma

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion; and upon Elinor therefore the whole task of telling lies when politeness required it, always fell.

Fingir candor es algo bastante corriente, se ve en todas partes. Pero ser cándido sin ostentación ni premeditación, quedarse con lo bueno de cada uno, mejorarlo aún, y no decir nada de lo malo, eso sólo lo haces tú.

Usted es demasiado generosa para jugar con mis sentimientos. Si los suyos siguen siendo los mismos del pasado abril, dígamelo en seguida. Mi afecto y mis deseos no han cambiado, pero una palabra suya me silenciará para siempre

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

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.