Quotes About Enjoyment

Of music! Then pray speak aloud. It is of all subjects my delight. I must have my share in the conversation if you are speaking of music. There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment

La personne, homme ou femme, qui n'éprouve pas de plaisir à la lecture d'un bon roman ne peut qu'être d'une bêtise intolérable.

En mi opinión, no hay placer mayor que la lectura.

but they must long feel that to flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

Es gran lectora, y no encuentra placer en otra cosa.

She's a great reader and takes pleasure in nothing else.

Què agradable es pasar la tarde así!En mi opinión, no hay mayor placer que la lectura. En compañía de un libro uno se aburre mucho menos. Cuando tenga casa propia me creeré muy desgraciada si no poseo una excelente biblioteca.

Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well.

When Mr. Collins could be forgotten, there was really an air of great comfort throughout, and by Charlotte's evident enjoyment of it, Elizabeth supposed he must be often forgotten.

Go and eat and drink a little more, and you will do very well.

You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

I have had the pleasure of your acquaintance long enough to know that you find great enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which in fact are not your own.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind;—but when a beginning is made—when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt—it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.

Lejos de mí, querida hermana, el despreciar tales placeres. Serán sin duda propios del carácter de casi todas las mujeres. Pero confieso que no me atraen. Prefiero, con mucho, un libro.

His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that extatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment. She was perfectly disposed to make every allowance for the colonel's advanced state of life which humanity required.

She is a great reader, and has no pleasure in anything else.

Cuando un párrafo está bien escrito es un placer leerlo, sea de quien sea y proceda de donde proceda, quizá con mayor placer siendo su verdadero autor Mr. Hume o el doctor Robertson y no Caractus, Agrícola o Alfredo el Grande.

How many an evening one could spend in this manner! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading, when I am grown and have a house of my own I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

I declare, there is no enjoyment like reading.

The progress of the friendship between Catherine and Isabella was quick as its beginning had been warm...and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together.

it was a misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library

on my part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.