Quotes About Perspective

Los hombres siempre han disfrutado de una ventaja, y ésta es la de ser los narradores de su propia historia. Han contado con todos los privilegios de la educación, y, además, han tenido la pluma en mis manos.

mas, sabe, nem todos nascemos com os mesmos poderes... os mesmos modos...

Pero hay algo tan dulce en los prejuicios de una mente joven, que uno llega a sentir pena de ver cómo ceden y les abren paso a opiniones más comunes.

Well, I cannot understand it.' 'That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

She expected from other people the same opinions and feelings as her own, and she judged of their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.

En ciertos casos he dado muestras de total incomprensión respecto de algunas personas, teniendo a muchos por más alegres, más graves o más estúpidos de lo que realmente son; aunque no puedo precisar de qué circunstancia deriva el error. Unas veces nos guiamos en tales materias por lo que ellos mismos dicen, otras por lo que afirman los demás; el hecho es que no nos tomamos el trabajo de observar por nosotros mismos.

Die eine Hälfte der Menschheit hat für das Vergnügen der anderen Hälfte kein Verständnis.

It is not my way to bother my brains with what does not concern me. My notion of things is simple enough. Let me only have the girl I like, say I, with a comfortable house over my head, and what care I for all the rest? Fortune is nothing. I am sure of a good income of my own; and if she had not a penny, why, so much the better.

Now I have done," cried Captain Wentworth. "When once married people begin to attack me with—'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married.' I can only say, 'No, I shall not;' and then they say again, 'Yes, you will,' and there is an end of it.

What think you of books? said he, smiling. Books—oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings. I

Canciones y proverbios, todo habla de la fragilidad femenina. Pero quizá diga usted que todos han sido escritos por hombres. - Quizá lo diga... Pero, por favor, no ponga ningún ejemplo de libros. Los hombres han tenido todas la ventaja sobre nosotras al contar ellos la historia. La educación de ellos ha sido mucho más completa; la pluma ha estado en sus manos. No permitiré que los libros me prueben nada. (p. 259)

she could still moralize over every morning visit; and as she was no longer mortified by comparisons between her sisters' beauty and her own, it was suspected by her father that she submitted to the change without much reluctance.

I cannot quite agree with you there.

Bueno, alguna vez fui joven, pero nunca fui muy guapa... mala suerte para mí. No obstante, me conseguí un muy buen esposo, y vaya a saber usted si la mayor de las bellezas puede hacer más que eso.

She was deep in the happiness of such misery, or the misery of such happiness, instantly.

Till you chose to turn her into a friend, her mind had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it.

I deserve neither such praise nor such censure," cried Elizabeth; "I am not a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things.

That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." Later

feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.—Every consideration of the subject, in short, makes me thankful that my happiness is not more deeply involved.—I shall do very well again after a little while—and then, it will be a good thing over; for they say every body is in love once in their lives, and I shall have been let off easily." When

I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other

El ceder sin convicción no habla en favor del entendimiento de ninguno de los dos .

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

At his house I often met Henry James. I liked to watch that ingenious spider weaving his webs, but to me he had no appeal.