Jane Austen Famous Quotes
"One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering."
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
"There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry . It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves."
"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong"
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
"I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person."
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out."
"In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes."
"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."
"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere."
"Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else."
"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."
Jane Austen Quotations
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.
Frank W Woolworth
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things."
Niccolo Machiavelli
"If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics."
Luther H Hodges
"Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence."
Titus Livius
"Wayne Tell me, when the first show is over, will you still love me when I'm an incredibly humungoid giant star Cassandra Yeah. Wayne Will you still love me when I'm in my hanging-out-with-Ravi-Shankar phase Cassandra Yeah. Wayne Will you still love me when I'm in my carbohydrate, sequined-jumpsuit, young-girls-in-white-cotton-panties, waking-up-in-a-pool-of-your-own-vomit, bloated-purple-dead-on-a-toilet phase Cassandra Yeah. Wayne Okay, party. Bonus."
Wayne s World
Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas.
Rolfe Neill
"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."
Salman Rushdie
"Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments."
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
"The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes."
Aubrey Menen