English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Jane Austen Quotes

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world!? and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.

Jane Austen

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession. Nafisa Joseph
Gena Lee Nolin quote: "I think Baywatch is such a hit here because of the weather."
I think Baywatch is such a hit here because of the weather. Gena Lee Nolin
John Dryden quote: "Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are."
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. John Dryden
Foxy Brown quote: "Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined."
Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined. Foxy Brown
I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes. Ferdinand de Saussure
Kyra Sedgwick quote: "I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that..."
I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay. Kyra Sedgwick
Michael Moore quote: "If you could read, you knew shit."
If you could read, you knew shit. Michael Moore
I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat! Ian Mckellen
No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem. Douglas Adams
The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations. Omar Bongo
Jacques Chirac quote: "One can go to war alone, butyou can't build peace alone."
One can go to war alone, butyou can't build peace alone. Jacques Chirac
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience. Umberto Eco
Peter Gallagher quote: "My eyebrows make a more profound impact on other people than..."
My eyebrows make a more profound impact on other people than they do on me. I just let 'em grow. Peter Gallagher
The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation. Spider Robinson
I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact. Scott Walker