Quotes About Consideration

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves. You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

My object then, replied Darcy, was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge.

No! Thank you for thinking I am thoughtful.

Consideration and Esteem surely follow command of Language as Admiration waits on Beauty

Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and one does overlook a great deal.

You do not make allowance enough for difference of situation and temper.

I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?

Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what to do; without any approach to coarseness, however, or any want of good humour. Anne gave her credit, indeed, for feelings of great consideration towards herself, in all that related to Kellynch; and it pleased her.

No has de cambiar, por consideración a una persona, el significado de los principios y de la integridad, ni tratar de convencerte, o convencerme a mí, de que el egoísmo es prudencia y la insensibilidad ante el peligro certidumbre de felicidad.

The politeness which she had been brought up to practise as a duty made it impossible for her to escape; while the want of that higher species of self-command, that just consideration of others, that knowledge of her own heart, that principle of right, which had not formed any essential part of her education, made her miserable under it.

sin querer obrar mal ni hacer infelices a los otros se puede errar y ocasionar desgracia. La carencia de reflexión o la escasa atención a los sentimientos ajenos, así como la falta de resolución, dan ese resultado.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Te equivocas, querida. Les tengo mucho respeto a tus nervios. Son viejos amigos míos. Hace por lo menos veinte años que te oigo mencionarlos con mucha consideración.

Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you choose

But consider your daughters. Only think what an establishment it would be for one of them. Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined

I honour your circumspection

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years