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.
Quote by Jane Austen
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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.
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Jane Austen Quotes
- 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.
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
- 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.
- 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.
- Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
- Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
- Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Best Quotes
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- We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
- The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
- A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
- With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.
- Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
- There's no abiding success without commitment.
- Accuse not nature, she hath done her part Do thou but thine, and be not diffident Of wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thou Dismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.
- Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
- All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.