Quotes About Understanding

She expected from other people the same opinions and feeling as her own, and she judged their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life. I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

Love which did not build a foundation on good sense was doomed.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am.

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.

This would be the way to Fanny's heart. She was not to be won by all that gallantry and wit and good-nature together could do; or, at least, she would not be won by them nearly so soon, without the assistance of sentiment and feeling, and seriousness on serious subjects.

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

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

A man who had felt less, might.

He understands muslin

No soy hombre de muchas palabras, Emma. Si te amara menos, sería capaz de hablar más de ello. Pero sabes como soy. De mí no escucharás más que verdades. Te he hecho reproches y te he reprendido y lo has soportado como ninguna otra mujer en toda Inglaterra lo hubiera hecho. Soporta todas las verdades que ahora te voy a decir, mi queridísima Emma, tan bien como soportaste aquellas

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

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

Muchas veces, los hechos hablan tan claramente que no precisan palabras.

I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think.

Indeed how can one care for those one has never seen?

Her mind was less difficult to develop.