¡Cuán mortificadas se verían muchas damas si de repente se percataran de lo poco que supone la indumentaria femenina, por costosa que sea, para el corazón del varón [...] Todo lo que consigue la mujer al intentar lucir más elegante es satisfacer su propia vanidad, nunca aumentar la admiración de los hombres ni la buena disposición de otras mujeres.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to love

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to love.

All have been anxious for the attentions of someone whom they wished to please.

But Mr. Elton had only drunk wine enough to elevate his spirits, not at all to confuse his intellects.

Piensa solo en el pasado cuando su recuerdo sea placentero.

And so well was she able to answer her own expectations, that when she joined them at dinner only two hours after she had first suffered the extinction of all her dearest hopes, no one would have supposed from the appearance of the sisters, that Elinor was mourning in secret over obstacles which must divide her for ever from the object of her love

The first experimental convinction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

Considero la bendición de una esposa como un tanto acierto se describe enlosdiscretos versos del poeta: " Del cielo el mejor y el último don".