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Quotes About Expression

Una persona che sa scrivere una lunga lettera con facilità non può scrivere male.
~ Jane Austen
Everybody allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is pecuiliarly female. Nature may have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.
~ Jane Austen
Las personas que como yo padecen de los nervios no tienen muchas ganas de hablar. ¡Nadie imagina mi sufrimiento! Pero siempre ha sido igual. Si uno no se queja, nadie le compadece.
~ Jane Austen
It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
~ Jane Austen
I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
~ Jane Austen
if I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more
~ Jane Austen
Estás deseando decirlo y no tengo inconveniente en escucharlo.
~ Jane Austen
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more -Mr. Knightely
~ Jane Austen
I abhor every common-place phrase by which wit is intended
~ Jane Austen
The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do.
~ Jane Austen
Curajul imi creste in timp ce scriu.
~ Jane Austen
He luchado en vano. Ya no quiero hacerlo. Me resulta imposible contener mis sentimientos. Permítame usted que le manifieste cuán ardientemente la admiro y la amo...
~ Jane Austen
but her Letters were always unsatisfactory, and though she did not openly avow her feelings, yet every line proved her to be Unhappy.
~ Jane Austen
though every glance convinced her of what she dreaded; for though he was not always looking at her mother, she was convinced that his attention was invariably fixed by her. The expression of his face changed gradually from indignant contempt to a composed and steady gravity.
~ Jane Austen
Cuando un párrafo está bien escrito es un placer leerlo, sea de quien sea y proceda de donde proceda, quizá con mayor placer siendo su verdadero autor Mr. Hume o el doctor Robertson y no Caractus, Agrícola o Alfredo el Grande.
~ Jane Austen
It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression, but their colour and shape, and the eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might be copied.
~ Jane Austen
No doubt he is a sensible man, and I suppose may have a natural talent for-thinks strongly and clearly-and when he takes a pen in hand, his thoughts naturally find proper words.
~ Jane Austen
Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion; and upon Elinor therefore the whole task of telling lies when politeness required it, always fell.
~ Jane Austen
Ninguna de las dos tiene nada que contar; tú porque no comunicas nada, y yo porque nada escondo.
~ Jane Austen
No he necesitado palabras donde las acciones han hablado por sí mismas con tanta claridad.
~ Jane Austen
Oh! certainly," cried his faithful assistant, "no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved.
~ Jane Austen
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.
~ Jane Austen
Those who do not complain are never pitied
~ Jane Austen
You speak too plain. She must understand you.' 'I hope she does. I would have her understand me. I am not in the least ashamed of my meaning.
~ Jane Austen