Quotes from Jane Austen

Por ella había sentido la más entrañable devoción y desde entonces no había conocido una mujer que se le igualara; pero, aparte de cierta curiosidad natural, no tenía ganas de volver a verla. Su poder sobre él se había perdido para siempre

endeavours to separate us were the means of removing all my doubts.

Uno no ama menos un lugar por haber sufrido en él, a menos que todo allí no fuera más que sufrimiento, puro sufrimiento.

My dear Mr. Bennet, said his lady to him one day, have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last? Mr. Bennet

This was his plan of amends — of atonement — for inheriting their father's estate;

Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want. This preservative she had now obtained; and at the age of twenty-seven, without having ever been handsome, she felt all the good luck of it.

He had ridden home through the rain; and had walked up directly after dinner, to see how this sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults, bore the discovery.

It is now expedient to give some description of Mrs. Allen, that the reader may be able to judge in what manner her actions will hereafter tend to promote the general distress of the work, and how she will, probably, contribute to reduce poor Catherine to all the desperate wretchedness of which a last volume is capable

La sagesse est préférable à l'esprit, et sur le long terme, c'est elle qui aura le dernier mot.

No es el tiempo ni la ocasión los que determinan la intimidad; es sólo el carácter, la disposición de las personas. Siete años podrían no bastar para que dos seres se conocieran bien, y siete días son más que suficientes para otros.

The good sense of Colonel

Te peate natuke minu elufilosoofiast õppust võtma. Meenutage minevikku ainult sedavõrd, kui see rõõmu pakub.»

I meant to be uncommonly clever in taking so decided a dislike to him, without any reason. It is such a spur to one's genius, such an opening for wit, to have a dislike of that kind. One may be continually abusive without saying anything just.

Yes, sighed Anne, we shall, indeed, be known to be related to them! then

After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

Well, I cannot understand it.' 'That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

The manner in which they spoke of the Meryton assembly was sufficiently characteristic. Bingley had never met

A veces uno se deja guiar por lo que las personas dicen de sí mismas, y muy a menudo por lo que otras dicen de ellas, sin darse tiempo para deliberar y discernir

A private dance, without sitting down to supper, was pronounced an infamous fraud upon the rights of men and women; and Mrs. Weston must not speak of it again.

She expected from other people the same opinions and feelings as her own, and she judged of their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.

En ciertos casos he dado muestras de total incomprensión respecto de algunas personas, teniendo a muchos por más alegres, más graves o más estúpidos de lo que realmente son; aunque no puedo precisar de qué circunstancia deriva el error. Unas veces nos guiamos en tales materias por lo que ellos mismos dicen, otras por lo que afirman los demás; el hecho es que no nos tomamos el trabajo de observar por nosotros mismos.

I'm going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.

Can you, in short, be prevailed on to quit this scene of public triumph and oblige your friend Eleanor with your company in Gloucestershire? I am almost ashamed to make the request, though its presumption would certainly appear greater to every creature in Bath than yourself. Modesty such as yours—but not for the world would I pain it by open praise. If you can be induced to honour us with a visit, you will make us happy beyond expression.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.