More from Jane Austen
One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
Jane AustenJane Austen Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
Jane AustenJane Austen The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
Jane AustenJane Austen There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane AustenJane Austen Success supposes endeavour.
Jane AustenJane Austen She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
Jane AustenJane Austen You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
Jane AustenJane Austen I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
Jane AustenJane Austen I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
Jane AustenJane Austen How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
Jane AustenJane Austen But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
Jane AustenJane Austen When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
Jane AustenJane Austen What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Jane AustenJane Austen It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane AustenJane Austen In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Jane AustenJane Austen Let us have the luxury of silence.
Jane AustenJane Austen
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More on explanation
If I wasn’t worthy of explanation, you aren’t worth being remembered.
N.M SanchezN.M Sanchez I just want to be held without having to explain myself.
N.M SanchezN.M Sanchez If I paint something, I don’t want to have to explain what it is.
Bob RossBob Ross I took some time away to reflect and learn about myself in a way that would be too much to explain at the moment , but with time I will express.
Bella HadidBella Hadid I took some time away to reflect and learn about myself in a way that would be too much to explain at the moment , but with time I will express.
Bella HadidBella Hadid You don’t owe them an explanation.
Lisa ArcherLisa Archer Never complain. Never explain.
Kate MossKate Moss The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
John WoodenJohn Wooden
