Jane Austen Quotes - Page 107 | Just Great DataBase

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

If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similiar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possinle of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life

At last Anne was at home again, and happier than any one in that house could have conceived. All the surprise and suspense, and every other painful part of the morning dissipated by this conversation, she re-entered the house so happy as to be obliged to find an alloy in some momentary apprehensions of its being impossible to last. An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of every thing dangerous in such high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

We may sometimes take greater liberties in November than in May.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind;—but when a beginning is made—when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt—it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.

did not appear to her that life could supply any greater felicity.

Lejos de mí, querida hermana, el despreciar tales placeres. Serán sin duda propios del carácter de casi todas las mujeres. Pero confieso que no me atraen. Prefiero, con mucho, un libro.

Un plan que promete incontables placeres no puede triunfar; y el desencanto general sólo se conjura con ayuda de algún pequeño disgusto.

Tell me not that I am too late. That such precious feelings are gone forever...Dare not say man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

Even their mother missed them—and how much more their tender-hearted cousin, who wandered about the house, and thought of them, and felt for them, with a degree of affectionate regret which they had never done much to deserve!

I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am.—You hear nothing but truth from me.—I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.—Bear with the truths I would tell you now, dearest Emma, as well as you have borne with them. The manner, perhaps, may have as little to recommend them. God knows, I have been a very indifferent lover.—But you understand me.—Yes, you see, you understand my feelings—and will return them if you can. At present, I ask only to hear, once to hear your voice.

connected with my fable—that this was the very gentleman whose negligent servant left behind him that collection of washing-bills, resulting from a long visit at Northanger, by which my heroine was involved in one of her most alarming adventures. The influence of the viscount and viscountess in their brother's behalf was assisted by that right understanding of Mr. Morland's circumstances which, as soon as the general would allow himself to be informed, they were qualified to give. It taught him that he had been scarcely more misled by Thorpe's first boast of the family wealth than by his subsequent malicious overthrow of it; that

Existe tanta gratidão e vaidade em quase todas as afeições que é perigoso abandoná-las à sua sorte — todos podemos começar livremente, uma ligeira preferência é bastante natural, mas são poucos os que têm o coração bastante firme para amar sem receber alguma coisa em troca.

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room of the house, he was used to be free from them there;

Das Vorrecht, das ich für mein Geschlecht beanspruche und das durchaus nicht so beneidenswert ist, dass Sie danach trachten müssten, besteht nur darin, dass unsere Liebe nimmer aufhört, auch wenn Leben und Hoffnung dahin sind.

Those who see quickly, will resolve quickly and act quickly,’ said Julia.

She always declares she will never marry, which, of course, means just nothing at all.

Young people do not like to be always thwarted.

Tutto sembrava anzi portarla a chiarire finalmente i suoi sentimenti, e non aveva mai capito così sinceramente di amarlo tanto come ora, quando l'amore era vano.

Sólo estoy dispuesta a actuar de la manera más acorde, en mi opinión, con mi futura felicidad, sin tener en cuenta lo que usted o cualquier otra persona igualmente ajena a mí, piense.