Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Quote by Jane Austen
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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Jane Austen Quotes
- Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
- 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.
- Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
- Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
- Those who do not complain are never pitied.
- 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.
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Best Quotes
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- Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
- The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
- Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
- My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.
- A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
- Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive
- Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?
- Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
- Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.