Джейн Остин: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 5)

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

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”

“… when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”

“A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”

“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be… yours.”

“I am excessively diverted.”

“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”

“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”

“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”

“Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”

“Time will explain.”

“She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.”

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

“Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.”

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”