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
“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?”
Variante: What are men to rocks and mountains?
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”
Source: Northanger Abbey
“It's such a happiness when good people get together.”
Variante: It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do.
Source: Emma
Letter to Cassandra (1798-12-24) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
“Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked;”
Letter to Fanny Knight (1816-03-23) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Contexte: He and I should not in the least agree, of course, in our ideas of novels and heroines. Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked; but there is some very good sense in what he says, and I particularly respect him for wishing to think well of all young ladies; it shows an amiable and a delicate mind. And he deserves better treatment than to be obliged to read any more of my works.
“for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.”
Source: Northanger Abbey
“His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.”
Source: Persuasion
“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
Variante: Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.”
Letter (1796-09-18) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
“Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.”
Source: Persuasion
“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”
Mansfield Park (1814)
Works, Mansfield Park