Quotes About Desire

I should indefinitely prefer a book.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone

aunque se deseara con impaciencia, un acontecimiento no traía consigo, al producirse, toda la satisfacción esperada.

and never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.

For a single man with a good fortune must be in want of a wife

It was the desire of appearing superior to other people. The motive was too common to be wondered at.

does not confine herself to that sort of honest flirtation which satisfies most people, but aspires to the more delicious gratification of making a whole family miserable.

No hay distancias cuando se tiene un motivo - Elizabeth

All have been anxious for the attentions of someone whom they wished to please.

She found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

Pero mi locura no ha sido el amor sino la vanidad.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

How then was I to be--to be in love with him the moment he said he was with me? how was I to have an attachment at his service, as soon as it was asked for?

Estás deseando decirlo y no tengo inconveniente en escucharlo.

I do not pretend to say that I was not very much pleased with him; but while I have Udolpho to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable.

But a week must pass; only a week, in Anne's reckoning, and then, she supposed, they must meet; and soon she began to wish that she could feel secure even for a week.

To be sure, you knew no actual good of me—but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.

What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

Sometime the worst type of weapon in the world is love.

To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her.

My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming—one other person at least.

I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but like every body else in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.