Quotes About Commitment

Sólo el amor más profundo me hará contraer matrimonio es por eso por lo que terminaré soltera.

Haz cualquier cosa menos casarte sin amor. ¿Estás absolutamente segura de que sientes lo que debe sentirse?

Si una mujer duda si debe aceptar o no a un hombre, lo evidente es que debería rechazarle.

Le sería un gran bien enamorarse perdidamente de alguien que la mereciese.

When she is secure of him, there will be more leisure for falling in love as much as she chooses.

I know he will make you happy, but you will make him everything.

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to 'Yes,' she ought to say 'No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband as it had once been to Willoughby.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

Y aunque no fue demasiado feliz en este mundo, encontró en el cumplimiento de sus deberes, en sus amigos y en sus hijos motivos suficientes para amar la vida y para no abandonarla con indiferencia cuando le llegó la hora.

There is one thing (...) a man can always do, if he chooses, and that is, his duty: not by maneuvering and finessing, but by vigor and resolution.

Cuando un joven, sea quien sea, viene y enamora a una linda chica y le promete matrimonio, no tiene derecho a desdecirse de su palabra sólo por haberse empobrecido y que una muchacha rica esté dispuesta a aceptarlo. ¿Por qué, en ese caso, no vende sus caballos, alquila su casa, despide a sus criados, y no da un real vuelco a su vida?

Marianne could never love by halves.

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

Senza dubbio, se vi è un affetto costante da entrambi i lati, i nostri cuori dovranno comprendersi tra non molto. Non siamo due ragazzi che si abbandonino a capricci e irritazione, ingannati dalla minima disattenzione di un momento, pronti a giocare d'azzardo con la nostra felicità.

It darted through her with the speed of an arrow that Mr. Knightley must marry no one but herself.

A strong sense of duty is no bad part of a woman's portion

And be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his for ever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to 'Yes,' she ought to say 'No' directly.

Man niekada neateit? ? galv? matuoti santuokos pasisekimo myliomis.

I have no notion of loving people by halves.

No sé querer a la gente a medias, no es mi manera de ser. Mis afectos son siempre extremadamente intensos.

I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole morning to answering it, as I foresee that a little writing will not comprise what I have to tell you.