“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
Jane Austen livro Orgulho e Preconceito
Fonte: Pride and Prejudice
“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
Jane Austen livro Orgulho e Preconceito
Fonte: Pride and Prejudice
“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
Jane Austen livro Northanger Abbey
Fonte: Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen livro Northanger Abbey
Variante: The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid
Fonte: "Northanger Abbey" (1817)
“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.”
Jane Austen livro Persuasão (livro)
Fonte: Persuasion
Jane Austen livro Sense and Sensibility
Fonte: Sense and Sensibility
“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”
Jane Austen livro Mansfield Park
Fonte: Mansfield Park
Jane Austen livro Orgulho e Preconceito
Fonte: Pride and Prejudice
“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”
Jane Austen livro Persuasão (livro)
Fonte: Persuasion
“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
Jane Austen livro Mansfield Park
Fonte: Mansfield Park
“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
Jane Austen livro Sense and Sensibility
Variante: [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
Fonte: Sense and Sensibility
“Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last”
Jane Austen livro Orgulho e Preconceito
Fonte: Pride and Prejudice
“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
Jane Austen livro Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park (1814)
Works, Mansfiled Park
Contexto: "I shall soon be rested," said Fanny; "to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment."