Jane Austen: Citáty anglicky

“She attracted him more than he liked.”

Jane Austen kniha Pýcha a předsudek

“She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.”

Jane Austen kniha Opatství Northanger

“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”

Jane Austen kniha Opatství Northanger

“Success supposes endeavour.”

Jane Austen kniha Emma

“The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!”

Jane Austen kniha Emma

“Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.”
-Elizabeth Bennet”

Jane Austen kniha Pýcha a předsudek

“Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

Jane Austen

“I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.”

Jane Austen kniha Anna Elliotová

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”

Jane Austen kniha Anna Elliotová

“We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.”

Jane Austen

“I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.”

Jane Austen kniha Emma

“You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.”

Jane Austen kniha Mansfield Park

“And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.”

Jane Austen kniha Opatství Northanger

“It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.”

Jane Austen kniha Pýcha a předsudek

“To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well”

Jane Austen kniha Opatství Northanger

“It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.”

Jane Austen kniha Pýcha a předsudek

“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”

Jane Austen kniha Emma

“What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.”

Jane Austen

“A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.”

Jane Austen kniha Anna Elliotová