1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it;- Elizabeth Bennet (Volume 2, chapter 1)

São muito poucas pessoas que eu realmente amo, e ainda menos as que tenho em alta conta. Quanto mais conheço o mundo, mais insatisfeita fico com ele; todo dia confirma minha crença da inconsistência de todo caráter humano, e na pouca confiança que se pode ter na aparência tanto do mérito quanto da razão.

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.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

--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.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

A man cannot recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not, he does not.¡Un hombre no puede olvidar el amor de una mujer así! No debe...no puede.

J'apprécie que les cousins se comportent en cousins & se préoccupent les uns des autres. Car, en réalité, ce sont seulement des frères & sœurs un peu plus éloignés.

In a total misapprehension of character in some point or other; fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.