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
- We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
- Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
- Think as I think said the man, or you are abominable. You are a toad. And after I had thought on it, I said I will then, be a toad.
- 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
- As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
- The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
- If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
- What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.
- One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
- The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.