Jane Austen

“He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.”

“Ihr seid beide so nachgiebig, daß ihr nie zu einem Entschluß kommen werdet, so gutgläubig, daß euch alle Dienstboten übers Ohr hauen, und so freigebig, daß ihr ständig eure Einkünfte übersteigen werdet.”

“Il y a, je crois, en chacun de nous, un défaut naturel que la meilleure éducation ne peut arriver à faire disparaître.”

“les gens changent tellement qu'il ya toujours du nouveau à observer.”

“Bien heureusement, pensait Elizabeth, personne ne devait s’en apercevoir. Car, à beaucoup de sensibilité Jane unissait une égalité d’humeur et une maîtrise d’elle-même qui la préservait des curiosités indiscrètes.”

“L’orgueil,- observa Mary qui se piquait de psychologie - est, je crois, un sentiment très répandu. La nature nous y porte et bien peu parmi nous échappent à cette complaisance que l’on nourrit pour soi-même à cause de telles ou telles qualités souvent imaginaires. La vanité et l’orgueil sont choses différentes, bien qu’on emploie souvent ces deux mots l’un pour l’autre ; on peut être orgueilleux sans être vaniteux. L’orgueil se rapporte plus à l’opinion que nous avons de nous-mêmes, la vanité à celle que nous voudrions que les autres aient de nous.”

“Comment, avec votre bon sens, pouvez-vous être aussi loyalement aveuglée sur la sottise d’autrui ? Il n’y a que vous qui ayez assez de candeur pour ne voir jamais chez les gens que leur bon côté...”

“I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill, and, therefore, if quite convenient to you and Mrs. Vernon to receive me at present, I shall hope within a few days to be introduced to a sister whom I have so long desired to be acquainted with. My kind friends here are most affectionately urgent with me to prolong my stay, but their hospitable and cheerful dispositions lead them too much into society for my present situation and state of mind; and I impatiently look forward to the hour when I shall be admitted into Your delightful retirement.”

“Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”

“she cannot expect to excel if she does not practice a good deal.”

“He hoped she might make some amends for the many very plain faces he was continually passing in the streets. The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women. He did not mean to say there were not pretty women, but the number of the plain was out of all proportion. He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights; and once, as he had stood in a shop on Bond street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, without there being a tolerable face among them. ... But still, there certainly were a dreadful multitude of ugly women in Bath; and as for the men! they were infinitely worse. Such scarecrows as the streets were full of!”

“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment”

“Sus modales eran refinados y su comportamiento ni excesivamente tímido ni afectadamente franco, con lo cual resultaba alegre, bonita y atractiva, sin llamar la atención de cuantos hombres la miraban y (mi parte favorita) sin hacer vehementes demostraciones de contrariedad o de placer cada vez que se presentaba la ocasión de manifestar cualquiera de estos sentimientos". Porque qué lindo es cuando una mujer no es sobreactuada.”

“There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution of a collected mind.”

“When he was gone, they were certain at least of receiving constant information of what was going on, and their uncle promised, at parting, to prevail on Mr. Bennet to return to Longbourn, as soon as he could, to the great consolation of his sister, who considered it as the only security for her husband's not being killed in a duel.”

“Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.”

“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.""And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.”

“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.”

“...she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularise, mentioned such works by our best moralists, such collections of fine letters, such memoirs of characters of worth and suffering, as occurred to her at the moment as calculated to rouse and fortify the mind.”

“She talked to her, listened to her, read to her; and the tranquillity of such evenings, her perfect security in such a tête-à-tête from any sound of unkindness, was unspeakably welcome to a mind which had seldom known a pause in its alarms or embarrassments.”

“Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.”

“...there are very few of us who have heart enough to be in love without encouragement.”

“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.”

“Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; but there was a mixture of sweetness and archness in her manner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody; and 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.”

“She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.”

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

“There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: 'Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.”

“Căci a fi naturală era pentru o față drăguță calitatea prin care spiritul ei devenea tot atât de atrăgător ca ființa ei.”

“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.”

“Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.”

“It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.”

“They went to the sands, to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine south-easterly breeze was bringing in all the grandeur which so flat a shore admitted. They praised the morning; gloried in the sea; sympathized in the delight of the fresh-feeling breeze- and were silent...”

“...it was a misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely.”

“...but a mind of usefulness and ingenuity seemed to furnish him with constant employment within.”

“...I would have jumped out and run after you.'Is there a Henry in the world who could be insensible to such a declaration? Henry Tilney at least was not. With a yet sweeter smile, he said every thing that need be said...”

“If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better.”

“Banii pot aduce fericire numai acolo unde n-o poate aduce nimic altceva. In afara de anumite inlesniri, banii nu pot oferi bucurii adevarate”

“I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.”

“Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of retaining them is less certain.”

“She found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.”

“She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.”

“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”

“There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.”

“If I endeavor to undeceive people as to the rest of his conduct, who will believe me? The general prejudice against Mr. Darcy is so violent that it would be the death of half the good people in Meryton, to attempt to place him in an amiable light. -Chapter 7”

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness.”

“poor Isabella;—which poor Isabella, passing her life with those she doated on, full of their merits, blind to their faults, and always innocently busy, might have been a model of right feminine happiness.”

“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”

“Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject...”

“She expected from other people the same opinions and feeling as her own, and she judged their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.”