Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Addams

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

Jane Austen

I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

Jane Austen

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

Jane Austen

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

Jane Austen

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

Jane Austen

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

Jane Austen

Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…

Jane Austen

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

Jane Austen

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

Jane Austen

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

Jane Austen

There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

Jane Austen

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

Jane Austen

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

Jane Austen

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

Jane Austen

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Jane Austen

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

Jane Austen

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

Jane Austen

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

Jane Austen

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

Jane Austen

I understand Crawford paid you a visit?" "Yes." "And was he attentive?" "Yes, very." "And has your heart changed towards him?" "Yes. Several times. I have - I find that I - I find that-" "Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.... I missed you." "And I you.

Jane Austen

she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

Jane Austen

There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.

Jane Austen

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

Jane Austen

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

Jane Austen

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

One of our missions is education. I've been at a lot of their performances, which are really heart warming, to see these kids use their talents.

Ann Wilson

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

Anna Akhmatova

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

Anna Akhmatova

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

Anna Akhmatova

You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

Ann Voskamp

When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.

Ann Voskamp

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

Ann Voskamp

That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.