Quotes from Jane Austen

He is a gentlemen. I am a gentleman's daughter. So far, we are equal.

Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body.

I have no thoughts of matrimony at present!

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;

Attendance, forbearance, patience with Darcy, was injury to Wickham.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if youdo.

Now I have done," cried Captain Wentworth. "When once married people begin to attack me with—'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married.' I can only say, 'No, I shall not;' and then they say again, 'Yes, you will,' and there is an end of it.

What think you of books? said he, smiling. Books—oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings. I

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity towhat we would have others think of us.

maid! and that's so dreadful!

Su primo era tan absurdo como había creído, y lo escuchaba con perverso gozo, no sin conservar la más absoluta compostura, y salvo alguna mirada a Lizzy de vez en cuando para hacerle saber que no quería que interrumpiese tan grato entretenimiento.

But it is very likely that hemay fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.

A clergyman cannot be high in state or fashion.

Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and her father travelled through, in The Mysteries of Udolpho. But you never read novels, I dare say? Why not? Because they are not clever enough for you—gentlemen read better books.

His regard for her was quite imaginary; and the possibility of her deserving her mother's reproach prevented his feeling any regret.

El alma se le fue a los pies y apenas podía sostenerse; pero era obligatoriamente necesario sobreponerse, y luchó con tanta decisión contra la congoja de su espíritu que el éxito fue rápido y, por el momento, completo.

Si ce que je vous ai dit jusqu'ici peut vous apparaître sous la forme d'un encouragement, je ne sais vraiment pas comment exprimer mon refus d'une façon telle qu'il vous donne la conviction qu'il en est bien un.

Senza dubbio, se vi è un affetto costante da entrambi i lati, i nostri cuori dovranno comprendersi tra non molto. Non siamo due ragazzi che si abbandonino a capricci e irritazione, ingannati dalla minima disattenzione di un momento, pronti a giocare d'azzardo con la nostra felicità.

it is not everyone...who has your passion for dead leaves

but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer. These past months have been a torment. I love you. Most ardently.

She was resolved against any sort of conversation with him, and turned away with a degree of ill-humour which she could not wholly surmount even in speaking to Mr. Bingley, whose blind partiality provoked her.

Pray do, my dear Miss Lucas," she added in a melancholy tone, "for nobody is on my side, nobody takes part with me. I am cruelly used, nobody feels for my poor nerves.

If there is a good fortune on one side, there can be no occasion for any on the other. No matter which has it, so that there is enough. I hate the idea of one great fortune looking out for another. And to marry for money I think the wickedest thing in existence.