Quotes from Jane Austen

No more have I," said Mr. Bennet; "and I am glad to find that you do not depend on her serving you.

GândeÅŸte-te la trecut numai în m?sura în care amintirea lui îÅ£i aduce bucurie.

It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. - You are never sure of a good impression being durable. Every body may sway it: let those who would be happy be firm.

I think it is the state of mind which gives most spirit and delight.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years

James Benwick is rather too piano

though he admires Elinor's drawings very much, it is not the admiration of a person who can understand their worth.

Those who chose to be idle, certainly might.

Oh! said Lydia stoutly, I am not afraid; for though I am the youngest, I'm the tallest. The rest of the evening was spent in conjecturing

Elizabeth soon perceived, that though this great lady was not in commission of the peace of the county, she was a most active magistrate in her own parish, the minutest concerns of which were carried to her by Mr. Collins; and whenever any of the cottagers were disposed to be quarrelsome, discontented, or too poor, she sallied forth into the village to settle their differences, silence their complaints, and scold them into harmony and plenty.

Its effect was most extraordinary; for on first hearing it, Mrs. Bennet sat quite still, and unable to utter a syllable. Nor was it under many, many minutes that she could comprehend what she heard; though not in general backward to credit what was for the advantage of her family, or that came in the shape of a lover to any of them. She began at length to recover, to fidget about in her chair, get up, sit down again, wonder, and bless herself.

Kurnazl??a yak?n her ?ey basitliktir.

If not in our dispositions,' she presently added, with a look of true sensibility, 'there is a likeness in our destiny; the destiny which bids fair to connect us with two characters so much superior to our own.

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me;

If I were as rich as Mr. Darcy, cried a young Lucas, who came with his sisters, I should not care how proud I was. I would keep a pack of foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine a day.

Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together; and yet for the advantage ofsome, conversation ought to be so arranged, as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

One's happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance.

little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property

and yet, it was not in her nature to question the veracity of a young man of such amiable appearance as Wickham.

I could not have supposed a niece would ever have been so much to me

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; but one cannot always be laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Može li iko upoznati ne?iju narav u Batu, ili na kojem drugom javnom mestu... Sve je to ništavno; ne može se tako ništa znati. Samo kada ?ovek vidi ženu u njenom domu, me?u njenim prijateljima, onakvu kakva je uvek. Tek onda može da stekne ispravno mišljenje. Sve drugo je sre?a i naga?anje - a ?esto se ispostavi da je zla sre?a.

no estoy hecha a pasar sinsabores.