Jane Austen Quotes
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.
Jane Austen
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
Oriana Fallaci
It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
Ottessa Moshfegh
The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Winning is everything in Hollywood.
Olympia Dukakis
Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
Dan Hill
I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.
Dane Cook
I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
M. Night Shyamalan
Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara
Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
Kapil Sibal
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss
I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
Rachael Taylor
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb