Jane Austen Quotes

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

Jane Austen

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• This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Right
  • Police
  • Dangerous

• Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Right
  • Half

• When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Character
  • House
  • Period

• Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Doubt
  • Wise

• Women would rather be right than reasonable.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Women
  • Right
  • Rather

• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Universe
  • Imagination

• I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Think
  • Know
  • Wise

• I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Play
  • Looks
  • Right

• The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Great
  • Team

• If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras.

  

  Jacinda Barrett
  • You
  • Right
  • Sure

• We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.

  

  Sam Houston
  • World
  • Free
  • Faith

• I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Artist
  • Right
  • Input

• Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Always
  • Right
  • Still

• It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Wise Man

• I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Like
  • Woman
  • Body

• The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Power
  • Wise
  • Same

• If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Right
  • Aim

• I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.

  

  J. Cole
  • World
  • Love
  • Wise

• There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right.

  

  Bing Crosby
  • Men
  • Labor

• I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Find
  • System
  • Solar

• Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Never
  • Old
  • Regulation

• Cynicism and defensiveness are two things constantly levelled at me. Look, I've got time for people, I'm good mannered. I usually find that when you're down, nobody has a bloody minute for you. If I was a nobody, you wouldn't even talk to me. People, in general, don't like you being upfront and civil. They hate you for it. They label you a cynic 'cos you're reasonable.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Things
  • Cynicism
  • Defensiveness

• Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Wise
  • Right
  • Instance