Quotes About Understanding

So altered that he should not have known her again!' These were words which could not but dwell with her. Yet she soon began to rejoice that she had heard them. They were of sobering tendency; they allayed agitation; they composed, and consequently must make her happier.

But to expose the former faults of any person without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.

Mrs. Parker was as evidently a gentle, amiable, sweet-tempered woman, the properest wife in the world for a man of strong understanding but not of a capacity to supply the cooler reflection which her own husband sometimes needed; and so entirely waiting to be guided on every occasion that whether he was risking his fortune or spraining his ankle, she remained equally useless.

Je lui aurais volontiers pardonné son orgueil s'il n'avait tant mortifié le mien.

Y con facilidad perdonaría su orgullo si no hubiera mortificado el mío.

Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Las personas que como yo padecen de los nervios no tienen muchas ganas de hablar. ¡Nadie imagina mi sufrimiento! Pero siempre ha sido igual. Si uno no se queja, nadie le compadece.

You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who would make you so.

Mr. Darcy, I could honestly forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.

Abbiamo tutti voglia di insegnare agli altri, anche se siamo solo in grado di insegnare soltanto quello che non vale la pena di sapere.

Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives.

no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

Não é o tempo ou a oportunidade que determinam a intimidade... é apenas a disposição. Sete anos seriam insuficientes para que algumas pessoas se conhecessem e sete dias são mais que suficientes para outras.

Every line, every word was -- in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, would forbid -- a dagger to my heart. To know that Marianne was in town was -- in the same language -- a thunderbolt. -- Thunderbolts and daggers! -- what a reproof would she have given me! -- her taste, her opinions -- I believe they are better known to me than my own, -- and I am sure they are dearer.

I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Estás deseando decirlo y no tengo inconveniente en escucharlo.

In essentials I believe Mr. Darcy is very much what he ever was. When I said that he improved on acquaintance, I did not mean that either his mind or manners were in a state of improvement. But that from knowing him better his disposition was better understood.

Anne, with an elegance of mind and sweetness of character, which must have placed heer high with any people of real understanding, was nobody with either father or sister: her word had no weight; her convenience was always to give away - she was only Anne.

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding—certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

That little boys and girls should be tormented is what no one at all acquainted with human nature in a civilized state can deny.

He knew her illnesses; they never occurred but for her own convenience.

Yine de genç bir akl?n önyarg?lar?nda öyle sevimli bir ÅŸey var ki, insan daha yayg?n görüÅŸlerin kabulüne feda edildiklerini görmekten üzüntü duyuyor.

His understanding and opinions all please me; he wants nothing but a little more liveliness, and that, if he marry prudently, his wife may teach him. I thought him very sly;—he hardly ever mentioned your name. But slyness seems the fashion.

She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation