Jane Austen Quotes

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

Jane Austen

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• Doubts

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• I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

  

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• How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

  

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• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

  

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• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

  

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• I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.

  

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• When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

  

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• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

  

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• No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

  

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• When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

  

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• Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.

  

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• I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

  

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• No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

  

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• It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

  

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• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

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• One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.'

  

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• You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.

  

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• Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

  

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• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

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• In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.

  

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• I often went entire days without speaking - unable to get a word in over my inner taskmaster, who never shut up: “You fat, disgusting slob, you'll never be thin enough, good enough, smart enough, tough or talented enough.

  

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• The Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail is unlike any other performance venue in the world, set with mountains and trees as a backdrop.

  

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• Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

  

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• I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Accept