Jane Austen: Frasi in inglese (pagina 17)

“When so many hours have been spent convincing myself I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?”

“I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.”

“Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?"

- Elizabeth Bennet”

“My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! Just old enough to be formal, ungovernable, and to have the gout; too old to be agreeable, too young to die.”

“Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.”

“Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…”

“I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.”

“Sense will always have attractions for me.”

“It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.”

“her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.”

“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.”

“There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.”

“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me.”

“Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.”

“To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.”

“A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.”

“A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.”

“I must have my share in the conversation…”

“You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”