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
- Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
- Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
- 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.
- 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 met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
- What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
- 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?
Best Quotes
- The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
- Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
- A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
- It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
- Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
- It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
- When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
- I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
- Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.
- Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.