Jane Austen Quotes - Page 106 | Just Great DataBase

Such extreme and perpetual cautiousness of word and manner, such a dread of giving a distinct idea about any body, is apt to suggest suspicions of there being something to conceal.

There are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

todos nos gusta dar lecciones, pero sólo enseñamos lo que no merece la pena saber. Perdóname,

You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect which her rank will inevitably excite.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope... I have loved none but you.

I do not know that I should be fond of preaching often; now and then, perhaps, once or twice in the spring, after being anxiously expected for half-a-dozen Sundays together; but not for a constancy; it would not do for a constancy.

But Mr. Elton had only drunk wine enough to elevate his spirits, not at all to confuse his intellects.

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

E' cosa ormai risaputa che a uno scapolo in possesso di un vistoso patrimonio manchi soltanto una moglie. Questa verità è così radicata nella mente della maggior parte delle famiglie che, quando un giovane scapolo viene a far parte del vicinato - prima ancora di avere il più lontano sentore di quelli che possono essere i suoi sentimenti in proposito - è subito considerato come legittima proprietà di una o dell'altra delle loro figlie.

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Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.

Mr. Rushworth could be silent no longer. "I do not say he is gentleman-like, considering; but you should tell your father he is not above five feet eight, or he will be expecting a well-looking man.

Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family. At ten years old, she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seventeen.

She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real passion, and without having excited even any admiration but what was very moderate and very transient.

Nothing is more deceitful,’ said Darcy, ‘than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,

My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not be like other travellers, without being able to give one accurate idea of any thing. We will know where we have gone -- we will recollect what we have seen. Lakes, mountains, and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor, when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarrelling about its relative situation. Let our first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travellers.

If the change be not from outward circumstances, it must be from within; it must be nature, man’s nature, which has done the business for Captain Benwick.’ ‘No, no, it is not man’s nature. I will not allow it to be more man’s nature than woman’s to be inconstant and forget those they do love, or have loved. I believe the reverse. I believe in a true analogy between our bodily frames and our mental; and that as our bodies are the strongest, so are our feelings; capable of bearing most rough usage, and riding out the heaviest weather.’ ‘Your feelings may be the strongest,’ replied Anne, ‘but the same spirit of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer-lived; which exactly explains my view of the nature of their attachments.

Yo diría que una mente que no sea capaz de luchar contra sí misma bajo una circunstancia siempre encontrará algo que la distraiga en la otra, y la influencia del lugar y del ejemplo pueden suscitar a menudo mejores sentimientos de los que se tenían al llegar.

but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend its continuing very long in equal force.

...it is very well worth while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it. Consider - if reading had not been taught, Mrs. Radcliffe would have written in vain - or perhaps might not have written at all.