Jane Austen Цитат: 84

• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

  Northanger Abbey

• There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

  Northanger Abbey

• A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

  Pride and Prejudice

• I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

  Pride and Prejudice

• In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

  Pride And Prejudice

• I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

  Jane Austen's Letters

• The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

  Sense and Sensibility

• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  Pride and Prejudice

• There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

  Pride and Prejudice

• Angry people are not always wise.

  Pride and Prejudice

• I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

  Pride and Prejudice

• but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

  Pride and Prejudice

• You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

  Persuasion

• I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

  Persuasion

• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

• Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

• There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

  Pride and Prejudice

• I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

  Pride and Prejudice

• The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

  Love and Friendship

• What are men to rocks and mountains?

  Pride and Prejudice

• I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

  Pride and Prejudice

• Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

  Emma

• Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

• It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

  Sense and Sensibility

• General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

• Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

• I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

  Pride and Prejudice

• It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

  Northanger Abbey

• We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

  Pride and Prejudice

• Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

  Mansfield Park

• If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

  Sense and Sensibility

• Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

  Emma

• There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours,"he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

  Pride and Prejudice

• There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

  Persuasion

• A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

• Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

  Pride and Prejudice

• Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

• She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

  Pride and Prejudice

• One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

  Emma

• How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

  Persuasion

• Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

  Pride and Prejudice

• There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

• Without music, life would be a blank to me.

  Emma

• ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

  Persuasion

• I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

  Sense and Sensibility

• I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

  Northanger Abbey

• You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

  Emma

• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

  Mansfield Park

• No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

  Northanger Abbey

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