Jane Austen Quotes

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

Jane Austen

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• I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Good
  • Gentleman
  • Southern

• Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Children
  • Culture
  • Law

• I don't worry about the integrity of the game. Our players are professionals.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Pretty
  • Party
  • Environment

• Il est à peu près impossible de constituer systématiquement une morale naturelle. La nature n'a pas de principes. Elle ne nous fournit aucune raison de croire que la vie humaine est respectable. La nature, indifférente, ne fait nulle distinction du bien et du mal.

  

  Anatole France
  • Nature

• Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Music
  • Yoga

• Getting 'SNL' was pretty amazing, so just to be able to have an eight-year career there and be really happy with everything I did, it was pretty big.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Career

• I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.

  

  Marisha Pessl
  • People
  • Book
  • Hate

• I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.

  

  Joe Alwyn
  • Movie

• I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.

  

  Anna Kournikova
  • Different
  • Country
  • Kiss

• There was a time when I was - after my very first record from Nashville, I thought I might not be one of those who actually really makes it, and I may end up back in Canada, just playing clubs. And that might - this might have just been it.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• I'm pretty good about getting some exercise every day - well, most days. The secret for me was to put the elliptical in front of the TV.

  

  Elizabeth Blackburn
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Exercise

• I am not against two-heroine films.

  

  Anushka Sharma

• Attacking Iraq would be madness.

  

  Jim Rogers

• We weren't happy. It was a nightmare, breaking the rules and all that. Everyone seemed to be having fun, but they were so taking many drugs they wouldn't know it anyway.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Happy
  • Fun

• O great wide beautiful wonderful World With the wonderful waters around you curled And the beautiful grass upon your breast O World you are beautifully dressed.

  

  John Crowley
  • World
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Singing
  • German

• One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Time
  • Pleasure
  • Enthusiastic

• I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also been long listed for the Man Booker prize, I have to admit that my response has confused me. I am so overwhelmed, so delighted, so honoured and so surprised, I have come out in a violent cold.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Surprised
  • Prize
  • Novelist

• The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Fire
  • Spirit
  • Anger

• A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

  

  George Eliot
  • Disposition
  • Meaner

• A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

  

  Joseph Lancaster
  • Education
  • System
  • Disposition

• She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Disposition
  • Delighted
  • Playful