Jane Austen: Citáty v angličtine

“It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.”

Jane Austen kniha Pride and Prejudice

“Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present”

Jane Austen kniha Sense and Sensibility

“Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.”

Jane Austen kniha Sense and Sensibility

“We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”

Jane Austen kniha Persuasion

“It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.”

Jane Austen kniha Emma

“Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.”

Jane Austen kniha Sense and Sensibility

“I do not cough for my own amusement.”

Jane Austen kniha Pride and Prejudice

“Vanity, not love, has been my folly.”

Jane Austen kniha Pride and Prejudice

“Next to being married, a girl likes being crossed in love a little now and again.”

Jane Austen kniha Pride and Prejudice

“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.”

Jane Austen

“That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.”

Jane Austen kniha Sense and Sensibility

“Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.”

Jane Austen kniha Northanger Abbey

“I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.”

Jane Austen kniha Pride and Prejudice

“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine… But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine…”

Jane Austen kniha Northanger Abbey

“I love you. Most ardently.”

Jane Austen kniha Pride and Prejudice

“I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]”

Jane Austen

“There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement”

Jane Austen kniha Pride and Prejudice

“Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.”

Jane Austen kniha Sense and Sensibility

“Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in…. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.”

Jane Austen