Jane Austen Quote #1
(...) aunque se deseara con impaciencia, un acontecimiento no traía consigo, al producirse, toda la satisfacción esperada.
Jane Austen Quote #2
--As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females.
--I do assure you, sir, that I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere.Jane Austen Quote #3
-Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.
-Take care, Lizzy; that speech savours strongly of disappointment.Jane Austen Quote #4
... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.
Jane Austen Quote #5
... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.
Jane Austen Quote #6
... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.
Jane Austen Quote #7
...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.
Jane Austen Quote #8
...And talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only happiness worth a wish.
Jane Austen Quote #9
...and their marriage, instead of depriving her of one friend, secured her two.
Jane Austen Quote #10
...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart. Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear. She left it all behind her, all but the recollection that such things had been.
Jane Austen Quote #11
...for to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan
Jane Austen Quote #12
...I will not allow books to prove any thing.
But how shall we prove any thing?
We never shall.Jane Austen Quote #13
...Jane had written the direction remarkably ill.
Jane Austen Quote #14
...the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Jane Austen Quote #15
...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane Austen Quote #16
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
Jane Austen Quote #17
[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
Jane Austen Quote #18
[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
Jane Austen Quote #19
[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.
Jane Austen Quote #20
[T]hey are much to be pitied who have not ... been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.
Jane Austen Quote #21
…each found her greatest safety in silence…
Jane Austen Quote #22
…Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched.
Jane Austen Quote #23
…Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…
Jane Austen Quote #24
…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.
Jane Austen Quote #25
…for what after all is Youth and Beauty?
Jane Austen Quote #26
…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…
Jane Austen Quote #27
…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.
Jane Austen Quote #28
…she had no resources for solitude…
Jane Austen Quote #29
…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…
Jane Austen Quote #30
…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…
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