Jane Austen: Citáty v angličtine

“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.”

Jane Austen

“Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.”

Jane Austen kniha Pride and Prejudice

“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”

Jane Austen kniha Pride and Prejudice

“Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same
feelings."

"I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be
no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.”

Jane Austen kniha Pride and Prejudice

“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."

-Elinor Dashwood”

Jane Austen kniha Sense and Sensibility

“And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”

Jane Austen kniha Pride and Prejudice

“[N]obody minds having what is too good for them.”

Jane Austen kniha Mansfield Park

“I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do whatright.”

Jane Austen kniha Mansfield Park

“You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.”

Jane Austen kniha Pride and Prejudice

“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.”

Jane Austen kniha Sense and Sensibility

“I have no talent for certainty.”

Jane Austen kniha Mansfield Park

“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.”

Jane Austen kniha Emma

“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”

Jane Austen

“Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.”

Jane Austen kniha Sense and Sensibility

“I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.”

Jane Austen kniha Pride and Prejudice

“My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.”

Jane Austen kniha Pride and Prejudice

“And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.”

Jane Austen kniha Emma

“I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.”

Jane Austen kniha Pride and Prejudice

“Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”

Jane Austen kniha Mansfield Park