«Pride and Prejudice» kitabından alıntılar, sayfa 81

Можно сыпать оскорблениями, не говоря ни единого праведного слова, но нельзя ведь беспрестанно смеяться над человеком, то и дело не натыкаясь на удачную остроту.

Все знают, что молодой человек, располагаюший средствами, должен подыскивать себе жену.

Бегите и заставьте Лиззи выйти замуж за мистера Коллинза, так как она не согласна стать его женой. И если вы не вмешаетесь в это сию же минуту, он может раздумать и не пожелает стать ее мужем.

Поэтому ей ничего не оставалось, как попытаться оправдать обоих, приписав все, что могло бросить на них тень, недоразумениям или ошибкам.

— Не было гувернантки? Просто немыслимо! Пять дочерей воспитаны без гувернантки! Никогда не слыхала ничего подобного. Ваша мать, должно быть, не имела минуты покоя, заботясь о вашем воспитании!

You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

The turn of your countenance I shall never forget, as you said that I could not have adressed you in any possible way that would induce you to accept me.

The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do. Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though he could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.

you may well warn me again such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it.

"Yes", replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer. "but that was only when i first saw her, for it is many months since i have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acqueintance." He then went away, and miss Bingley was left to all satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no one any pain but herself.