Quotes from Jane Austen

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

What! do not you know who Miss Williams is? I am sure you must have heard of her before. She is a relation of the Colonel's, my dear; a very near relation. We will not say how near, for fear of shocking the young ladies.

Os meus sentimentos não se manifestam por dá cá aquela palha. O meu temperamento poderia talvez ser classificado de vingativo. A minha opinião, uma vez perdida, fica perdida para sempre.

Prepare yourself for something dreadful.

I do not cough for my own amusement, replied Kitty fretfully.

Mas o orgulho, onde quer que haja uma verdadeira superioridade intelectual, o orgulho estará sempre sob uma boa orientação.

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

Our liturgy has beauties, which not even a careless, slovenly style of reading can destroy; but it has also redundancies and repetitions, which require good reading not to be felt.

Oh! how heartily did she grieve over every ungracious sensation she had ever encouraged, every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him. For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him.

Fanny's friendship was all that he had to cling to.

it does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl.

Si una mujer duda si debe aceptar o no a un hombre, lo evidente es que debería rechazarle.

I will not torment you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks.

Le sería un gran bien enamorarse perdidamente de alguien que la mereciese.

It is always good for young people to be put upon exerting themselves; and you know, my dear Catherine, you always were a sad little shatter-brained creature; but now you have been forced to have your wits about you...

The loo-table, however, did not appear.

Any difficulties posed by lack of rooms, space or even beds should never be permitted to interfere with the demands of hospitality to family or friends. Something can always be contrived.

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.

Ä°nsan?n kalbi birine aitse baÅŸka hiç kimsenin ilgisi pek bir ÅŸey ifade etmez. Sevilen kiÅŸiyle ilgili olmayan her ÅŸey o kadar yavan, o kadar s?radan gelir ki!

they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

What a strange thing love is!

Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?

Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger.

If I may, so long as the woman you love lives, and lives for you, all the privilege I claim for my own sex, and it is not a very enviable one - you need not covet it, is that of loving longest when all hope is gone.