Quotes from Jane Austen

Mrs. Weston proposed having no regular supper; merely sandwiches, &c., set out in the little room; but that was scouted as a wretched suggestion. 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.

If Louisa recovered, it would all be well again. More than former happiness would be restored. There could not be a doubt, to her mind there was none, of what would follow her recovery. A few months hence, and the room now so deserted, occupied but by her silent, pensive self, might be filled again with all that was happy and gay, all that was glowing and bright in prosperous love, all that was most unlike Anne Elliot!

Since her being at Lambton, she had heard that Miss Darcy was exceedingly proud; but the observation of a very few minutes convinced her that she was only exceedingly shy.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love;

as it assured her that Darcy was not less answerable for Wickham's absence than if her first surmise had been just, every feeling of displeasure against the former was so sharpened by immediate disappointment, that she could hardly reply with tolerable civility to the polite inquiries which he directly afterwards approached to make.

But I tell you, Miss Lizzy — if you take it into your head to go on refusing every offer of marriage in this way, you will never get a husband at all — and I am sure I do not know who is to maintain you when your father is dead. I shall not be able to keep you — and so I warn you.

I wish Frederick would spread a little more canvass, and bring us home one of these young ladies to Kellynch.

do not cough for my own amusement

advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great.

Cuán mortificadas se verían muchas damas si de repente se percataran de lo poco que supone la indumentaria femenina, por costosa que sea, para el corazón del varón [...] Todo lo que consigue la mujer al intentar lucir más elegante es satisfacer su propia vanidad, nunca aumentar la admiración de los hombres ni la buena disposición de otras mujeres.

I declare after all ,there is no enjoyment like reading!!

Bila je uvjerena da bi mogla biti sretna s njim sad kad više nije bilo vjerojatno da ?e se ikada sresti.

We have neither of us any thing to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing.

I prefer to be unsociable and taciturn

People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking. Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

if Anne will stay, no one so proper, so capable as Anne.

I honour your circumspection

It darted through her with the speed of an arrow that Mr. Knightley must marry no one but herself.

Those who do not complain are never pitied

There can hardly be a more unpleasant sensation than the having anything returned on our hands which we have given with a reasonable hope of its contributing to the comfort of a friend.

afterwards.--She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings

it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely;

mezcla de orgullo y servilismo, petulancia y modestia.

Lizzy is not a bit better than the others; and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good-humoured as Lydia. But you are always giving her the preference.