Jane Austen Quotes - Page 101 | Just Great DataBase

Now I have done," cried Captain Wentworth. "When once married people begin to attack me with,--'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married.' I can only say, 'No, I shall not;' and then they say again, 'Yes, you will,' and there is an end of it.

Believe me, I have no pleasure in the world superior to that of contributing to yours. No,

It was very well known that no affection was ever supposed to exist between the children of any man by different marriages; and why was he to ruin himself, and their poor little Harry, by giving away all his money to his half sisters?

Have you ever read Udolpho, Mr. Thorpe?" "Udolpho! Oh, Lord! Not I; I never read novels; I have something else to do." Catherine, humbled and ashamed, was going to apologize for her question, but he prevented her by saying, "Novels are all so full of nonsense and stuff; there has not been a tolerably decent one come out since Tom Jones, except The Monk; I read that t'other day; but as for all the others, they are the stupidest things in creation.

... exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

My dear

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

there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

ridiculous,

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves.

We can all BEGIN freely--a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

If you will thank me," he replied, "let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of YOU.

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. Though

Sabe perfectamente que mi opinión no tendría peso alguno en usted, a no ser que respaldara sus deseos.

Well, then, I must say that I do not like him at all. Though it has turned out so well for us, I do not like him at all. As it happens, there is no great harm done, because I do not think Isabella has any heart to lose. But, suppose he had made her very much in love with him?

... sin querer obrar mal ni hacer infelices a los otros se puede errar y ocasionar desgracia. La carencia de reflexión o la escasa atención a los sentimientos ajenos, así como la falta de resolución, dan ese resultado.

Всички обичаме да поучаваме, нонай-често учим другите на неща, които не си струва да се знаят.

He­chos u opiniones que tengan que pasar por boca de tantos pueden ser tergiversados por algún ton­to, y la ignorancia que puede haber por alguna otra parte contribuye a que de la verdad quede muy poco.

Now she was angry. Some