Jane Austen: Frasi in inglese (pagina 19)

“He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.”

“One can never have too large a party.”

“Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.”

“What could I do! Facts are such horrid things!”

“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness.”

“Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?”

“It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.”

“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.”

“Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.”

“A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.”

“Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”

“But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?”

“Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.”

“Catherine […] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.”

“I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.”

“There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.”

“She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.”

“My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”

“I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.”