Jane Austen Quotes - Page 48 | Just Great DataBase

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

Ha de aprender mi filosofía. Del pasado no tiene usted que recordar más que lo placentero.

In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance.

She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.

Si entonces no se acerca a mí, pensaba, me olvidaré de él para siempre.

Good opinion once lost, is lost forever

there are very few of us that do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary

Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.

If you are not so compassionate as to dine to-day with Louisa and me, we shall be in danger of hating each other for the rest of our lives, for a whole day's tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.

I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say 'Yes,' that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt.

Everything nourishes what is strong already.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.

—¿Prefieres leer a jugar? —La señorita Elizabeth Bennet es una gran lectora y no encuentra placer en nada más.

Una persona che sa scrivere una lunga lettera con facilità non può scrivere male.

When she did come, it was very evident that she had no pleasure in it; she made a slight, formal apology for not calling before, said not a word of wishing to see me again, and was in every respect so altered a creature, that when she went away, I was perfectly resolved to continue the acquaintance no longer.

no es justo publicar las faltas del pasado de una persona, ignorando si se ha corregido.

The distance is nothing, when one has a motive.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

Tidak ada yang lebih menipu daripada kerendahan hati. Seringkali itu hanya menjadi ungkapan semata, dan terkadang justru disampaikan untuk menyombongkan diri secara diam-diam.