More from Jane Austen
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane AustenJane Austen Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane AustenJane 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
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We were dirt poor but we had each other. We didn’t need much to have a lot.
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The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession – I can’t really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum.
Nikki ReedNikki Reed It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska The Big Band Era is my era. People say, ‘Where did you get your style from?’ I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That’s the best way I could explain it.
Chuck BerryChuck Berry Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
B. B. KingB. B. King I thought I’d explained it clearly before. Bella, I can’t live in a world where you don’t exist.
Stephenie MeyerStephenie Meyer It’s very hard not to be condescending when you’re explaining something to an idiot.
Bill MaherBill Maher No need to erase no need to explain. The beauty is in the change.
Kimmery MossKimmery Moss I can’t explain it, but from the first day I stepped into a wrestling ring, I knew that one day I was going to be a big superstar. I knew that one day I would be the NWA World Heavyweight Champion like my hero, Lou Thesz.
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