Цитаты из книги Persuasion

— Усердно! Гм, усердное обещание! Немного странно звучит. Я слышал об усердном исполнении обещанного. Но усердное обещание – усердие на словах?

Хорошенько подумай, прежде чем решишься кому-нибудь отдать свое сердце!

В библиотеке он всегда мог найти покой и тишину.

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of.

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

We are all fools in love.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say — of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Her heart was divided between concern for her sister, and resentment against all the others.

Я буду великодушен и докажу, что я мужчина, не только щедростью своей души, но и ясностью рассудка.

ибо если правда, как утверждает прославленный писатель, что нет оправданий влюбленной юной девы, прежде, чем в любви ей признался джентельмен, юной деве было бы весьма неприемлемо грезить о джентельмене прежде, чем станет известно, что джентельмен грезил о ней.