Quotes About Choice

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.

Tienes una triste alternativa ante ti, Elizabeth: debes renunciar a uno de tus padres. Tu madre no quiere volver a verte si no te casas con Collins, y yo no quiero volver a verte si te casas con él.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness. If you prefer Mr. Martin to every other person; if you think him the most agreeable man you have ever been in company with, why should you hesitate?

I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk

Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection.

Poverty is a great evil; but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same time addressed in such a way as to oblige one to do the very thing - whatever it be!

May we take my uncle's letter to read to her? Take whatever you like, and get away.

Sólo estoy dispuesta a proceder de la manera que considere más apropiada para mi felicidad, sin tener en cuenta lo que piense usted ni ningún otro.

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

There is one thing...which a man can always do, if he chuses[sic], and that is, his duty.

If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

He had never been an unhappy man; his own temper had secured him from that, even in his first marriage; but his second must shew him how delightful a well-judging and truly amiable woman could be, and must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it. He

I should indefinitely prefer a book.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

If he is satisfied with only regretting me, when he might have obtained my affections and hand, I shall soon cease to regret him at all.

There is always one thing a man can do, if he so chooses, and that is his duty.

his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.

I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine. Fortune I do not want; employment I do not want; consequence I do not want.

Mi spazientisce oltremisura quando fanno finta di chiedermi, di darmi una scelta, e nello stesso tempo si rivolgono in modo tale da obbligarmi a fare quella cosa… di qualsiasi cosa si tratti!

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.

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