One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Quote by Jane Austen
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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Jane Austen Quotes
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
- 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.
- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
- What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- 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.
- 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.
- Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
- Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
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