Jane Austen: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 9)

“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.”

“Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”

“Let us have the luxury of silence.”

“His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.”

“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”

“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.”

“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.”

“There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.”

“… why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

“Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.”

“Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.”

“If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.”

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness."

-Edward Ferrars”

“That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.”

“They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.”

“I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.”

“We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.”

“She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.”

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”