To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Quote by Jane Austen
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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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Jane Austen Quotes
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
- 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.
- Those who do not complain are never pitied.
- Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
- Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Best Quotes
- There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
- Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
- Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
- Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
- Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
- Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
- Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
- What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.
- There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
- You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.