La vi uno de estos días en la tele inglesa, en versión original, of course. Me gusta mucho tanto la novela como la peli, que me parece una versión bastante digna.
Ambos eran obstinados, inteligentes, orgullosos, pero se querían…
“I cannot give you
credit for any philosophy of the kind. Your retrospections must be so totally
void of reproach, that the contentment arising from them is not of philosophy,
but, what is much better, of innocence. But with me, it is not so. Painful
recollections will intrude which cannot, which ought not, to be repelled. I
have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As
a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper.
I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit.
Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only child), I was spoilt by my
parents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, all that was
benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish
and overbearing; to care for none beyond my own family circle; to think meanly
of all the rest of the world; to wish at least to think meanly of their sense
and worth compared with my own. Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and
such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do
I not owe you! 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”.
Mr. Darcy to Mrs. Elizabeth
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
by JANE AUSTEN
