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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.

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.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

possession

If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it.

When I am in the country, I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town It is pretty much the same. They have each their advantages, and I can be equally happy in either.

My fingers", said Elizabeth, "do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault--because I will not take the trouble of practising. It is not that I do not believe MY fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution."Darcy smiled and said, "You are perfectly right. You have employed your time much better. No one admitted to the privilege of hearing you can think anything wanting. We neither of us perform to strangers.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense. I have met with two instances lately, one I will not

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.

Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

His sisters were anxious for his having an estate of his own; but, though he was now only established as a tenant, Miss Bingley was by no means unwilling to preside at his table—nor was Mrs. Hurst, who had married

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

It was gratitude; gratitude, not merelyfor having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him.

ball.

Soy la criatura más dichosa del mundo. Tal vez otros lo hayan dicho antes, pero nadie con tanta justicia.

Човек, който не мени мнението си, е задължен да бъде много точен в първата си преценка.

To such perseverance in willful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, that if he persisted in considering her repeated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as must be decisive, and whose behavior at least could not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.

With a book he was regardless of time...

For a single man with a good fortune must be in want of a wife

In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

When he was gone, they were certain at least of receiving constant information of what was going on, and their uncle promised, at parting, to prevail on Mr. Bennet to return to Longbourn, as soon as he could, to the great consolation of his sister, who considered it as the only security for her husband's not being killed in a duel.

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity,

Miss Darcy was tall and on a larger scale than Elizabeth and though little more than sixteen her figure was formed and her appearance womanly and graceful. She was less handsome than her brother but there was sense and good humour in her face and her manners were perfectly unassuming and gentle. Elizabeth who had expected to find in her as acute and unembarrassed an observer as ever Mr. Darcy had been was much relieved by discerning such different feelings.

She's a great reader and takes pleasure in nothing else.

Aye, so it is," cried her mother, "and Mrs. Long does not come back till the day before; so it will be impossible for her to introduce him, for she will not know him herself.

You are a good girl, and I have great pleasure in thinking you will be so happily settled. I have no doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.

They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town,

As long as you need time to think my affections and wishes are unchanged, and one word from you will silence me forever on this subject .

My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me

Hayırseverliğine hayramım," diye konuştu Mary, " Ama yine de bütün duygusal dürtüler mantıkla yönlendirilmelidir. Şahsen fikrimi sorarsan; insanın harcadığı her emek daima kendisinden talep edilenle doğru orantılı olmalıdır.