«Pride and Prejudice / Гордость и предубеждение» adlı sesli kitaptan alıntılar, sayfa 106
Не давай воли подобным чувствам. Они разобьют твое сердце.
...there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
Не много найдется людей, которые способны любить без всякого поощрения.
She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man, who, in disposition and talent, would mostly suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wished. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both; by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have softened, his manners improved, and from his judgment, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.
..A flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and from the ignorance and emptiness of her mind, wholly unable to ward off any portion of that universal contempt which her rage for admiration will excite.
'How despicably have I acted!' she cried,- 'I, who have prided myself on my discernment!- I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity, in useless or blameable distrust. - How humiliating is this discovery!-Yet, how just a humiliation! - Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. - Pleased with the preference of one and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.'
Affectation of candour is common enough; one meets with it everywhere.
“My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now
she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.”
