Quotes About Introspection

Considering how very handsome she is, she appears to be little occupied with it; her vanity lies another way.

the art of knowing our own nothingness beyond our own circle

São poucas as pessoas de quem eu gosto realmente e mais restrito ainda o número daquelas de quem eu faço um bom juízo. Quanto mais conheço o mundo, maior é o meu descontentamento por ele; e cada dia confirma a minha crença na inconsistência de todos os caracteres humanos e na pouca confiança susceptível de ser depositada na aparência quer do mérito como do bom senso.

Pese a esta experiencia creía que iba a tener que pasar por una nueva y necesaria lección en el arte de aprender lo poca cosa que somos fuera de nuestro propio círculo.

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

Poseo bastantes defectos, pero creo que no proceden de mi entendimiento.

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;

And she leaned back in the corner, to indulge her murmurs, or to reason them away; probably a little of both—such being the commonest process of a not ill-disposed mind.

e eu seria a primeira a fechar os olhos a seu orgulho, se ele não tivesse ferido o meu.

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it; - Elizabeth Bennet (Volume 2, chapter 1)

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

The tumult of her mind was now painfully great. She knew not how to support herself, and, from actual weakness, sat down and cried for half an hour.

she was now in great danger of suffering from intellectual solitude.

How ill I have written. I begin to hate myself.

I believe it often happens that a man, before he has quite made up his own mind, will distinguish the sister or intimate friend of the woman he is really thinking of more than the woman herself.

The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it.

Pride, observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, is a very common failing

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;

What made you so shy of me, when you first called, and afterwards dined here? Why especially, when you called, did you look as if you did not care about me? Because you were grave and silent, and gave no encouragement. But I was embarrassed And so was I. You might have talked to me more when you came to dinner A man who had felt less, might.

Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying.

one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half, or always suspecting the other of being worse than it was.

She was, in fact, beginning very much to wonder that she had ever thought him pleasing at all; and his sight was so inseparably connected with some very disagreeable feelings, that, except in a moral light, as a penance, a lesson, a source of profitable humiliation to her own mind, she would have

A veces uno se deja guiar por lo que las personas dicen de sí mismas, y muy a menudo por lo que otras dicen de ellas, sin darse tiempo para deliberar y discernir