Citations de Jane Austen - Meilleurs dictons de Jane Austen

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Jane Austen

Mots clés time opportunity openness marianne-dashwood intimacy self-disclosure disposition

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The world had made him extravagant and vain - Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its own guilty triumph at the expense of another, had involved him in a real attachment, which extravagance, or at least its offspring, necessity, had required to be sacrificed. Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise to punishment.

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At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

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Mots clés attractiveness charm first-impressions

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Obstinate, headstrong girl!

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Mots clés humorous pride-and-prejudice

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My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

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Mots clés thinking letter idea

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Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.