Quotes About Independence

You must give me leave to judge for myself, and pay me the compliment of believing what I say.

Don't act yourself, if you do not like it, but don't expect to govern everybody else.

Had it been your uncle's doing, I must and would have paid him; but these violent young lovers carry everything their own way. I shall offer to pay him to-morrow; he will rant and storm about his love for you, and there will be an end of the matter.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. I

And she did what nobody thought of doing... she consulted Anne.

We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before

That Lady Russell of steady age and character, and extrememly well provided for,should have no thought of a second marriage needs no apology to the public, which is rather apt to be unreasonalbly discontented when a woman 'does' marry again,than when she does not, but Sir William's continuing in singleness requires explanation.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be

The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself;

I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party.

when it comes to the question of dependence or independence!—At any rate, it must be better to have only one to please than two.

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

These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Choose your own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more.

Sólo el amor más profundo me hará contraer matrimonio es por eso por lo que terminaré soltera.

Estoy cansada de someter mis deseos a los caprichos de los demás, de no seguir los dictámenes de mi propio juicio en deferencia a los que nada debo y que no me infunden respeto. He

Conviene que de vez en cuando los jóvenes se vean obligados a pensar por sí mismos y a obrar con libertad.

She regained the street--happy in this, that though much had been forced on her against her will, though she had in fact heard the whole substance of Jane Fairfax's letter, she had been able to escape the letter itself.

Ich bin nur entschlossen, im Interesse meines Glückes zu handeln, ohne Rücksicht auf Sie oder irgendjemanden, der ebenso wenig mit mir zu tun hat.

I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying at all.

At any rate, it is safer to leave people to their own devices on such subjects. Everybody likes to go their own way—to choose their own time and manner of devotion

The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself;

El hecho de que Lady Russell, de muy buena edad y agradable carácter, y en circunstancias ideales para ello, no hubiese querido pensar en segundas nupcias, no tiene por qué ser explicado al público, que está tan dispuesto a sentirse irracionalmente descontento cuando una mujer no se vuelve a casar.

But here she did injustice to the fire and independence of his character, for it led him to escape out of Longbourn House the next morning with admirable slyness, and hasten to Lucas Lodge to throw himself at her feet.

Everybody likes to go their own way- to choose their own time and manner of devotion.