Jane Austen Quotes

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

Jane Austen

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• The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Life
  • Training
  • Animal

• I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

  

  Dana Perino
  • History
  • Age
  • Thought

• It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Want
  • Kid
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• 'As with all dwellings,' she said, 'of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house-not the doors, not the walls.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • She
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• I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.

  

  Lexa Doig
  • Girl

• I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

  

  Chuck Mangione
  • People
  • Joy

• All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • People

• One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn't like you. Especially when you don't know what you've done to deserve it.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • World
  • Done
  • Feelings

• You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Song
  • Knows
  • Records

• It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • War
  • Governments
  • Rulers

• Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • People
  • Business
  • Law

• I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Life
  • Paint
  • Sing

• Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

  

  Cyrus Augustus Bartol
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Science

• When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Rock

• Oakmont possesses all the charm of a sock to the head.

  

  Gene Sarazen
  • Golf
  • Charm
  • Sock

• And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Life
  • Strength
  • Weak

• I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Agree
  • Capable

• Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.

  

  Leopold Kronecker
  • Freedom
  • Movement
  • Mysterious

• There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

  

  William Penn
  • World
  • Motivational
  • Track

• Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Capable
  • Composition
  • Estimating