He hoped she might make some amends for the many very plain faces he was continually passing in the streets. The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women. He did not mean to say there were not pretty women, but the number of the plain was out of all proportion. He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights; and once, as he had stood in a shop on Bond street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, without there being a tolerable face among them. ... But still, there certainly were a dreadful multitude of ugly women in Bath; and as for the men! they were infinitely worse. Such scarecrows as the streets were full of!
Jane Austenthe futility of something is not always (in love and in politics) a sufficient argument against it
Jane AustenComment, avec votre bon sens, pouvez-vous être aussi loyalement aveuglée sur la sottise d’autrui ? Il n’y a que vous qui ayez assez de candeur pour ne voir jamais chez les gens que leur bon côté...
Jane AustenL’orgueil,- observa Mary qui se piquait de psychologie - est, je crois, un sentiment très répandu. La nature nous y porte et bien peu parmi nous échappent à cette complaisance que l’on nourrit pour soi-même à cause de telles ou telles qualités souvent imaginaires. La vanité et l’orgueil sont choses différentes, bien qu’on emploie souvent ces deux mots l’un pour l’autre ; on peut être orgueilleux sans être vaniteux. L’orgueil se rapporte plus à l’opinion que nous avons de nous-mêmes, la vanité à celle que nous voudrions que les autres aient de nous.
Jane AustenBien heureusement, pensait Elizabeth, personne ne devait s’en apercevoir. Car, à beaucoup de sensibilité Jane unissait une égalité d’humeur et une maîtrise d’elle-même qui la préservait des curiosités indiscrètes.
Jane AustenIl y a, je crois, en chacun de nous, un défaut naturel que la meilleure éducation ne peut arriver à faire disparaître.
Jane AustenIhr seid beide so nachgiebig, daß ihr nie zu einem Entschluß kommen werdet, so gutgläubig, daß euch alle Dienstboten übers Ohr hauen, und so freigebig, daß ihr ständig eure Einkünfte übersteigen werdet.
Jane Austen-Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.
-Take care, Lizzy; that speech savours strongly of disappointment.
Mots clés jane-austen
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent. His attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence.
Jane AustenMots clés opening-lines
Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty women can bestow." Mr. Darcy
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