Jane Austen Quotes

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

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• There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Important
  • Quality
  • English

• Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Disney
  • Almost
  • Deeply

• Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Short
  • Here

• Our fashion style is very legendary and very classic. I feel like it's different, and I feel like everybody got our own different style to bring to the table.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Different
  • Fashion
  • Style

• False modesty is better than none.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • False
  • Modesty
  • None

• Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.

  

  Alfred Edgar Coppard
  • Men
  • War
  • Father

• Even a low-budget film costs way more money than a high-priced record. So, it's mo' money, mo' problems. When you have more money, it just creates more people trying to get involved and you have more trouble.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• Wouldn't it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, 'Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub.'

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Party

• Chicken, yeah, that's me. I'd rather fight an old rogue-vamp in my underwear, with my bare hands, than deal with relationship problems.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • Relationship

• Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life

• Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

  

  Charles Handy
  • People
  • Life
  • Heart

• Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

  

  Charles James
  • Lost
  • Fashion
  • Magic

• Did I ever tell you,’ said Lymond pausing on the afterthought, on his way to the flap, ‘that that aunt of mine once hatched an egg?’ He paused, deep in thought, and walked slowly to the door before turning again. His lordship of Aubigny, staring after the vanishing form of his brother, received the full splendour of Lymond’s smile. ‘It was a cuckoo,’ said Francis Crawford prosaically, and followed Lennox out.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Way
  • Deep
  • Brother

• Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • May
  • Moments
  • Two

• I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Reason
  • Advertising
  • Optimist

• We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Ourselves
  • Franker

• He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Truth
  • Guide
  • God's Providence

• We call him Shabba. You know, Shabba Ranks, Mr. Loverman. He likes the ladiez." "When Thom starts singing, you can’t hold back the tears.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Singing
  • Tears
  • Shabba

• We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Ourselves
  • Guide