Quotes About Character

So much for Isabella," she cried, "and for all our intimacy! She must think me an idiot, or she could not have written so; but perhaps this has served to make her character better known to me than mine is to her. I see what she has been about. She is a vain

ma Anne, con la sua raffinata intelligenza e la sua dolcezza, virtù che avrebbero dovuto collocarla molto in alto nella stima di chiunque fosse dotato di giudizio, non era nessuno né per il padre né per la sorella. La sua parola non aveva alcun valore, le sue esigenze erano sempre considerate poco importanti; era soltanto Anne

Lucy does not want sense, and that is the foundation on which every thing good may be built.

The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur

Yak?nl??? belirleyen ?ey zaman ya da imkan de?ildir, sadece karakterdir.

She thought it could scarcely escape him to feel that a persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

Pentru firea mea, nu pun mana in foc. Este, cred, prea putin ingaduitoare; sigur, prea putin, pentru a conveni celorlalti. Nu pot uita prostiile si pacatele oamenilor atat de repede pe cat ar trebui, si nici ofensele pe care mi le aduc. Nu ma las impresionat de orice incercare ce s-ar face de a ma emotiona. Caracterul meu ar putea fi numit ranchiunos. Buna mea parere o data pierduta, este pierduta pentru vecie.

Por una persona en concreto no debes trastocar el significado de principio y de integridad, ni intentar convencerte a ti misma o a mí, de que el egoísmo es prudencia o de que la insensibilidad ante el peligro es un seguro de felicidad

Fingir candor es algo bastante corriente, se ve en todas partes. Pero ser cándido sin ostentación ni premeditación, quedarse con lo bueno de cada uno, mejorarlo aún, y no decir nada de lo malo, eso sólo lo haces tú.

If I endeavor to undeceive people as to the rest of his conduct, who will believe me? The general prejudice against Mr. Darcy is so violent that it would be the death of half the good people in Meryton, to attempt to place him in an amiable light. -Chapter 7

Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humoured, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.

He had meant them to be good, but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the necessity of self-denial and humility

I never saw such a woman. I never saw such capacity, and taste, and application, and elegance, as you describe, united.

Credo che in ogni temperamento ci sia una qualche tendenza negativa, un difetto innato che nemmeno la migliore educazione riesce a vincere. Orgoglio e Pregiudizio

She was assured of his affection; and that heart in return was solicited, which, perhaps, they pretty equally knew was already entirely his own; for, though Henry was now sincerely attached to her, though he felt and delighted in all the excellencies of her character and truly loved her society

Elinor agreed to it; she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

La vanidad es un defecto. Pero el orgullo, en caso de personas de inteligencia superior, creo que es válido

I am particularly unlucky in meeting with a person so able to expose my real character, in a part of the world where I had hoped to pass myself off with some degree of credit.

Lady Catherine was reckoned proud by many people he knew, but he had never seen anything but affability in her.

Allow me to say, Lady Catherine, that the arguments with which you have supported this extraordinary application have been as frivolous as the application was ill-judged. You have widely mistaken my character, if you think I can be worked on by such persuasions as these.

He had not forgiven Anne Elliot. She had used him ill, deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure. She had given him up to oblige others. It had been the effect of over-persuasion. It

frankness of her character in her reply to the letter which announced its arrangement, she sent him language so very abusive, especially of Elizabeth, that for some time all intercourse

pero Ana, que poseía una finura de espíritu y una dulzura de carácter que la habrían colocado en el mejor lugar entre gentes de verdadero seso

But here she did injustice to the fire and independence of his character, for it led him to escape out of Longbourn House the next morning with admirable slyness, and hasten to Lucas Lodge to throw himself at her feet.