Jane Austen Quotes - Page 119 | Just Great DataBase

It is very unfair to judge of any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation. Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

El buen filósofo sólo saca beneficio de donde lo hay.

La imaginación de una dama va muy rápido y salta de la admiración al amor y del amor al matrimonio en un momento.

A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid! The proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.

That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

thousand

If we feel for the wretched, enough to do all we can for them, the rest is empty sympathy, only distressing to ourselves. Harriet

congratulatory

[...] If it was not for the entail, I should not mind it.""What should not you mind?""I should not mind anything at all.""Let us be thankful that you are preserved from a state of such insensibility.

Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?

handsome,

Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Every savage can dance.

... dar a conocer las faltas anteriores de una persona desconociendo cuáles son sus sentimientos en el presente, es injustificable.

Mary était la seule qui restait maintenant à Longbourn et nécessairement elle fut distraite de ses études par Mme Bennet, qui ne pouvait se passer de société. Mary

Yes I should, I am sure I should. There is always a look of consciousness or bustle when people come in a way which they know to be beneath them. You think you carry it off very well, I dare say, but with you it is a sort of bravado, an air of affected unconcern; I always observe it whenever I meet you under those circumstances. Now you have nothing to try for. You are not afraid of being supposed ashamed. You are not striving to look taller than any body else. Now I shall really be very happy to walk into the same room with you.

The more I see the world, most dislike, and the time confirms my belief in the inconsistency of human nature and how little can one trust the appearances of goodness or intelligence

One cannot wonder that so very fine ayoung man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, shouldthink highly of himself. If I may so express it, he hasa right to be proud.

Bennet,

What an air of probability sometimes runs through a dream! And at others, what a heap of absurdities it is!