Quotes About Understanding

God knows, I have been a very indifferent lover. But you understand me.

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.

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

strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

My feelings are not often shared, not often understood - Marianne Dashwood

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

no man can be a good judge of the comforts a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex […]

Reluctantly, and with much hesitation, did she then begin what might perhaps, at the end of half an hour, be termed, by the courtesy of her hearers, an explanation;

You feel, as you always do, what is most to the credit of human nature.  —Such feelings ought to be investigated, that they may know themselves.

I have not known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him than I am with any other creature in the world.

To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others

It is very unfair to judge of any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation. Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

There was certainly at this moment, in Elizabeth's mind, a more gentle sensation towards the original, that she had ever felt in the height of their acquaintance. Elizabeth's changing relationship with Darcy on first visit to Pemberley, Chapter 43.

Qualquer pessoa, seja homem ou mulher, que não souber apreciar um bom romance deve ser insuportavelmente estúpido.

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook…

It is very unfair to judge of any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

Hubiera podido fácilmente perdonar su orgullo, si no hubiera sido porque se metió con el mío Elizabeth Bennet.

Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much on the subject.

She was his own Emma, by hand and word

El que ella no se lo reproche, no lo justifica a él. Solo demuestra que ella carece de algo, bien de prudencia, bien de sentimiento.

Los que no cambian nunca de opinión deben cerciorarse bien antes de juzgar.

But you must give my compliments to him. Yes — I think it must be compliments. Is not there a something wanted, Miss Price, in our language — a something between compliments and — and love — to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together? — So many months acquaintance! — But compliments may be sufficient here.

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.