“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“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.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“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.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“Let us have the luxury of silence.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“Fanny! You are killing me!"
"No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“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.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what is right.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“[N]obody minds having what is too good for them.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“I have no talent for certainty.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“I understand Crawford paid you a visit?"
"Yes."
"And was he attentive?"
"Yes, very."
"And has your heart changed towards him?"
"Yes. Several times. I have - I find that I - I find that-"
"Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.... I missed you."
"And I you.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
“Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Born place: in Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, England
Born date December 16, 1775
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“It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle.
For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.”
― Christopher Paolini, quote from Inheritance
“It has been the will of Heaven," the essay began, "that we should be thrown into existence at a period when the greatest philosophers and lawgivers of antiquity would have wished to live...
a period when a coincidence of circumstances without example has afforded to thirteen colonies at once an opportunity of beginning government anew from the foundation and building as they choose. How few of the human race have ever had the opportunity of choosing a system of government for themselves and their children? How few have ever had anything more of choice in government than in climate?”
― David McCullough, quote from John Adams
“It would have been nice to have had unicorns.”
― Tom Stoppard, quote from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“If there is no snake at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road.”
― Andre Dubus III, quote from House of Sand and Fog
“We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.”
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