Jane Austen citations célèbres
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen Citations
“La sagesse est préférable à l'esprit, et sur le long terme, c'est elle qui aura le dernier mot.”
Du fond de mon coeur, lettres à ses nièces
“Les gens sont prompts à emprunter ou à faire des éloges qu'à acheter, ce qui ne me surprend pas.”
Du fond de mon coeur, lettres à ses nièces
Variante: Les gens sont plus prompts à emprunter ou à faire des éloges qu'à acheter, ce qui ne me surprend pas.
Du fond de mon coeur, lettres à ses nièces
“Tout est préférable, tout peut être enduré plutôt qu'un mariage sans affection.”
Du fond de mon coeur, lettres à ses nièces
Jane Austen: Citations en anglais
“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
Source: Northanger Abbey
Variante: The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid
Source: "Northanger Abbey" (1817)
“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.”
Source: Persuasion
“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”
Source: Mansfield Park
“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”
Source: Persuasion
“Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.”
Source: Emma
“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
Source: Mansfield Park
“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
Variante: [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
Mansfield Park (1814)
Works, Mansfiled Park
Contexte: "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."
“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”
Source: Mansfield Park
“[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.”
Source: Northanger Abbey
