Jane Austen: Frases en inglés (página 3)

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

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

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.”

“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.”

“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”

“My idea of good company… is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”

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

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”

“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”

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

“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”

“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of”

“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”

“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.”

“What strange creatures brothers are!”