Jane Austen: Frasi in inglese

Variante: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
Origine: Persuasion

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”

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Jane Austen libro Orgoglio e pregiudizio

Origine: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

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Jane Austen libro Orgoglio e pregiudizio

Origine: Pride and Prejudice

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”

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Jane Austen libro Ragione e sentimento

Variante: Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Origine: Sense and Sensibility

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”

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Jane Austen libro Orgoglio e pregiudizio

Origine: Pride and Prejudice

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”

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Jane Austen libro Orgoglio e pregiudizio

Origine: Pride and Prejudice

“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”

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Jane Austen libro Orgoglio e pregiudizio

Origine: Pride and Prejudice

“We are all fools in love”

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Jane Austen libro Orgoglio e pregiudizio

Origine: Pride and Prejudice

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”

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Jane Austen libro Mansfield Park

Dinner was soon followed by tea and coffee, a ten miles' drive home allowed no waste of hours; and from the time of their sitting down to table, it was a quick succession of busy nothings till the carriage came to the door, and Mrs. Norris, having fidgeted about, and obtained a few pheasants' eggs and a cream cheese from the housekeeper, and made abundance of civil speeches to Mrs. Rushworth, was ready to lead the way.
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Origine: Said by Fanny Price in a 1999 adaptation of Mansfield Park. Actual quote:

“Till this moment I never knew myself.”

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Jane Austen libro Orgoglio e pregiudizio

Origine: Pride and Prejudice

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

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Jane Austen libro Persuasione

Origine: Persuasion

“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

-Mr. Darcy”

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Jane Austen libro Orgoglio e pregiudizio

Origine: Pride and Prejudice