Category: Author Jane Austen

I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your ladyship. You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 1 There is hardly any personal defect,” replied Anne, “which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. Jane Austen Persuasion 1 There is so much of…

I have observed, Mrs Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. Jane Austen Emma 5 That will just do for me, you know. I shall be sure to say three dull things as soon as ever I open my mouth,…

She attracted him more than he liked–and Miss Bingley was uncivil to HER, and Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 tolerably Jane Austen Emma 0 Darcy was not of a disposition in which happiness overflows in mirth; and Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy than felt herself to be so; Jane…

Her thoughts were all fixed on that one spot of Pemberley House, whichever it might be, where Mr. Darcy then was. She longed to know what at the moment was passing in his mind—in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in defiance of everything, she was still dear to him. Jane Austen Pride…

Of course i love her, but there are as many forms of love as there are moments in time. Jane Austen Mansfield Park 19 But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are —…

No puedo concretar la hora, ni el sitio, ni la mirada, ni las palabras que pusieron los cimientos de mi amor. Hace bastante tiempo. Estaba ya medio enamorado de ti antes de saber que te quería Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 1 But a note had had been prepared and left for her, written in…

He would look for her- he would find her out long before the evening were over- and at present, perhaps, it was as to be asunder. She was in need of a little interval for recollection. Jane Austen Persuasion 3 It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin…

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. Jane Austen Emma 0 El buen filósofo sólo saca beneficio de donde lo hay.…

El que ella no se lo reproche, no lo justifica a él. Solo demuestra que ella carece de algo, bien de prudencia, bien de sentimiento. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 3 It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane…

universally Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 4 May we take my uncle’s letter to read to her? Take whatever you like, and get away. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 4 There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: ‘Keep your breath to cool your porridge’; and I shall keep…