Jane Austen: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 4)

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”

“A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”

“She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.”

“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

“There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”

“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”

“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

“It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.”

“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.”

“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”

“It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.”

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!”