Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Jane Austen

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Jane Austen

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Jane Austen

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Jane Austen

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Jane Austen

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Jane Austen

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Jane Austen

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

Jane Austen

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Jane Austen

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

Jane Austen

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Jane Austen

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Jane Austen

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Jane Austen

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Jane Austen

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Jane Austen

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Jane Austen

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Jane Austen

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Jane Austen

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Jason Calacanis

Be amazing. Be everywhere. Be real

Janet Jackson

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

Jane Wagner

I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu!

Jane Seymour

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

Susan B. Anthony

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

Bob Dylan

If you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.

Bodhidharma

Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

Brigham Young

No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you.

Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.

Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

Barry Goldwater

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

Bruce Lee

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

Bruce Lee

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.