Quotes About Introspection

You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

En compañía de un libro uno se aburre mucho menos.

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

The I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed.

None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

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

each found her greatest safety in silence…

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

I am amazingly absent; I believe I am the most absent creature in the world.

one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

Human nature needs more lessons than a weekly sermon can convey.

I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses! Oh Lord! There is not getting away from one's self

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted. -- Jane Austen's Letters August 1796

By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

I'm ill qualified to recommend myself to strangers. Mr. Darcy

Why is he so altered? From what can it proceed? It cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened... It is impossible that he should still love me.

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

Ambos somos insociables, taciturnos, enemigos de hablar a menos que esperemos decir algo que deje boquiabierto a quien escucha y pase a la posteridad con el brillo de un proverbio - Lizzy Bennet.