Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone."
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"Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone."
"التصنّع بالصراحة أمر شائع بما فيه الكفاية، يصادفه المرء في كل مكان. أما أن تكون صريحًا بلا تفاخر أو قصد، وأن تأخذ من خصال كل إنسان ما هو حسن فتزيده حسنًا، ولا تذكر شيئًا من سيئها، فهذا أمر يخصك وحدك."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"How unfortunate, considering I have decided to loathe him for eternity"
"يا للأسف، مع أنني قد عزمتُ على أن أمقته إلى الأبد."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit."
"أحسنتِ صنعًا، يا صغيرتي. لقد أمتعتِنا بما يكفي. حان الوقت لتفسحي المجال للآنسات الأخريات ليُظهرن مواهبهن."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"I admire all my three sons-in-law highly. Wickham, perhaps is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane's."
"أُعجَبُ بأصهاري الثلاثة إعجابًا شديدًا. ولعل ويكهام هو الأقرب إلى قلبي؛ لكني أظن أني سأحب زوجك بقدر حبي لزوج جين تمامًا."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"I never wish to be parted from you from this day on."
"لا أرغب في أن أفارقك من هذا اليوم فصاعدًا أبدًا."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be content; but her own opinion continued the same, and she left disappointed and sorry. It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition."
"ولم يكن أمام إليزابيث إلا أن ترضى بهذا الجواب؛ لكن رأيها ظل على حاله، وغادرت وهي تشعر بخيبة الأمل والأسف. بيد أنه لم يكن من طبعها أن تزيد من همومها بالاستغراق فيها. فقد كانت واثقة من أنها أدت واجبها، ولم يكن من شيمتها أن تتضجر من الشرور التي لا مفر منها، أو أن تزيدها قلقًا."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure"
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"It was gratitude; gratitude, not merelyfor having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"With a book, he was regardless of time."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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