Quotes About Introspection

You feel, as you always do, what is most to the credit of human nature.  —Such feelings ought to be investigated, that they may know themselves.

Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them.

Do you compare your conduct with his? No. I compare it with what it ought to have been; I compare it with yours.

But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her.

She wanted to be alone. Her mind was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made it impossible for her to be collected. She was in dancing, singing, exclaiming spirits; and till she had moved about, and talked to herself, and laughed and reflected, she could be fit for nothing rational.

An hour's complete leisure for such reflections as these, on a dark November day, a small thick rain almost blotting out the very few objects ever to be discerned from the windows...

How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!

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; these were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments. The danger, however, was at present so unperceived, that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her.

Oh! Miss Woodhouse, the comfort of being sometimes alone!

Her resentment of such behaviour, her indignation at having been its dupe, for a short time made her feel only for herself.

But to expose the former faults of any person without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions;

In music she had been always used to feel alone in the world.

If someone insists their feet are always firmly on the ground, how else can you discover if their head is sometimes in the clouds?

To say the truth,' replied Miss Crawford, 'I am something like the famous Doge at the court of Lewis XIV.; and may declare that I see no wonder in this shrubbery equal to seeing myself in it

Hay tanto de gratitud o de vanidad en casi todos los defectos, que no es cauto abandonarse de ellos.

I felt that I admired you, but I told myself it was only friendship; and till I began to make comparisons between yourself and Lucy, I did not know how far I was got.

If I am a fool, I shall be a fool indeed, for I have thought on the subject more than most men.

Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution.

Anne wondered whether it ever occurred to him now, to question the justness of his own previous opinion as to the universal felicity and advantage of firmness of character; and whether it might not strike him that, like all other qualities of the mind, it should have its proportions and limits. She

There is nothing people are so often deceived in, as the state of their own affections.

I am ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers.

I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica.

Anne entered it with a sinking heart, anticipating an imprisonment of many months, and anxiously saying to herself, Oh! when shall I leave you again?