Цитаты из книги Jane Austen: The Complete Novels

—Иной раз бывает удивительно трудно сделать так, чтобы тебе поверили! —А бывает - и совсем невозможно!

When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.

She was deep in the happiness of such misery, or the misery of such happiness, instantly.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned!

...we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber...

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health...

I certainly am proud, too proud to enjoy a welcome which depends so entirely upon place.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking his mistress's head, is not it, Miss Elliot?

Anne wondered whether it ever occurred to him now, to question the justness of his own previous opinion as to the universal felicity and advantage of firmness of character; and whether it might not strike him that, like all other qualities of the mind, it should have its proportions and limits. She thought it could scarcely escape him to feel that a persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

By this time the report of the accident had spread among the workmen and boatmen about the Cobb, and many were collected near them, to be useful if wanted, at any rate, to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, nay, two dead young ladies, for it proved twice as fine as the first report.

When once married people begin to attack me with,--'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married.' I can only say, 'No, I shall not;' and then they say again, 'Yes, you will,' and there is an end of it.

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world.

A sick child is always the mother's property...

...a removal from one set of people to another, though at a distance of only three miles, will often include a total change of conversation, opinion, and idea.

...though there were on each side continual subjects of offence, neither family could now do without it.

There is hardly any personal defect <...> which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to love...