What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
Quote by Jane Austen
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
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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.
- 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.
- To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
- Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
- 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.
- One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
- 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.
- Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
Best Quotes
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- It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
- To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
- When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
- I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.
- Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
- Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
- I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.