To Miss Cooper Cousin, Conscious of the Charming Character which in every Country, and every Clime in Christendom is Cried, Concerning you, with Caution and Care I Commend to your Charitable Criticism this Clever Collection of Curious Comments, which have been Carefully Culled, Collected and Classed by your Comical Cousin The Author
Jane Austen
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The most incredible architecture Is the architecture of Self, which is ever changing, evol... ALLAN RUFUS Why don’t you get to the point,” she drawled. “I want to have a few hours of sleep tonight.”... SARAH J. MAAS I miss you in the maddening noise of crowd, I hear your laughter at my folly with sweet indiffe... DEBATRAYEE BANERJEE I miss you in the maddening noise of crowd, I hear your laughter at my folly with sweet indiffe... DEBATRAYEE BANERJEE This," cried the Mayor, "is your town's darkest hour! The time for all Whos who have blood that... DR. SEUSS I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth so... LAURELL K. HAMILTON Come back to me. Where have you gone? And why so long? I miss the star below your lip... KAMAND KOJOURI Every man wants to be appreciated, so do not just commend your secretary, commend your wife at home ... SUNDAY ADELAJA somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: E.E. CUMMINGS This is your time This is your dance Live every moment Leave nothing to chance Swim ... MICHAEL W. SMITH HEARTWORK Each day is born with a sunrise and ends in a sunset, the same way we SUZY KASSEM Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER Looking for Your Face From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your fac... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI A Gift for You I send you... The gift of a letter from your wise self. This is the p... S.A.R.K. Some primal termite knocked on wood; and tasted it, and found it good. That is why your Cousin... OGDEN NASH You are the daughter of the sea, oregano's first cousin. Swimmer, your body is pure as the wat... PABLO NERUDA Where are you and I'm so sorry I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight I need somebody and al... BLINK 182 I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and neve... MARY OLIVER You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust w... JOHN ADAMS I miss the innocence of your childish sweet smile and your gentle, knowing touch. ... URSULA DENISE WALKER Entrepreneurs get distracted by productivity and miss profits. Corporate folk get distrac... RICHIE NORTON Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; ... RAINER MARIA RILKE I’ve always hated it when authors seem to find joy In killing my favorite characters. Wi... JUSTIN WETCH No matter how close, you are always too far My eyes are drawn everywhere you are. I... CORA CARMACK In the small circle of pain within the skull You still shall tramp and tread one endless round TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT And now, Henry," said Miss Tilney, "that you have made us understand each other, you may as well mak... JANE AUSTEN And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for... MITCH ALBOM And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for... MITCH ALBOM Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make c... ALLAN RUFUS And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of al... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The circumstances amid which you life determine your reputation; the truth you believe determines yo... WILLIAM HERSEY DAVIS Tell me what it is that you are hiding behind your eyes. Tell me of the pain, so I can make it ... JOSé N. HARRIS I honor you for every time this year you: got back up vibrated higher shin... LALAH DELIA And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain." And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the sh... KAHLIL GIBRAN Love. Because of you, in gardens of blossoming Flowers I ache from the perfumes of s... PABLO NERUDA O Lord I thank Thee for this wonderful body which by itself is a miracle. Thank you for this wo... LATIKA TEOTIA Of course! the path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination MARY OLIVER Every time you try and fail, Every time your hope gets stuck in the deeps, And you wonder ... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE i love good cries, loud sobs that soak your pillow that kind that come at the end of ... MADISEN KUHN sometimes i don't know, which moment which cool gust of wind will come, and enchant me SANOBER KHAN Let my assure you, Brethren, that some day you will have a personal Priesthood interview with the Sa... DAVID O. MCKAY How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the... GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER This is a day of celebration! Today, we are divorcing the past and marrying the present. KAMAND KOJOURI Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You... WALT WHITMAN You’re thinking, maybe it would be easier to let it slip let it go say ”I give up” o... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON By definition, you can’t experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And conscio... ROBERT CHARLES WILSON So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one... MARY OLIVER Silent companions of the lonely hour, Friends, who can never alter or forsake, Who for inconst... CAROLINE NORTON Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you hea... KAHLIL GIBRAN Every man must have a philosophy of life, for everyone must have a standard by which to measur... B.R. AMBEDKAR She: Why was there a distance between you and me? He: Distance makes us realize how much we mis... AVIJEET DAS MOTHER IS WATER I wish I could Shower your head with flowers And anoint your fe... SUZY KASSEM You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. ROBERT FAGLES Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incide... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The modesty of the athletic body which is contented with its perfection You could limit y... PIERRE DRIEU LA ROCHELLE He put Harry’s wand back into its box and wrapped it in brown paper, still muttering, “Curious .... J.K. ROWLING And now he is singing a bard's curse upon you, O brother abbot, and upon your father and your mother... W.B. YEATS a bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so LI-YOUNG LEE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Are you there? I call for you. I've been calling your name, Searching every place in my m... TANZY SAYADI Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the... RALPH WALDO EMERSON LET’S GO BACK HOME I can't think about you, Without smiling. What I wouldn’... GIORGE LEEDY My child, I know you're not a child But I still see you running wild Between those floweri... ANTONIA MICHAELIS Matty,” Jane whispered, “what are you thinking?” He smiled, kissed her navel before glanc... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Suddenly, you will stop, you and me and all of us. Your lungs will rest at last and the electric pul... SARAH MOSS The Mistake With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactl... JAMES FENTON As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which t... WILLIAM BLAKE You made me laugh at your jokes. You made me cry at your criticism. You made me shout at y... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray An... JACK GILBERT In Blackwater Woods Look, the trees are turning their own bodies in... MARY OLIVER I like pouring your tea, lifting the heavy pot, and tipping it up, so the fragrant liquid ... CAROL ANN DUFFY THE INVITATION by Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn't interest me what you do for a li... ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not. Seek to build not destroy. Bring My people home. <... NEALE DONALD WALSCH Who is your favorite character in the series? Or...if that's too hard, why do you like each one and ... JULIE KAGAWA Better associations __________________ If you associate yourself with a change maker... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR TRAUMA STEALS YOUR VOICE People get so tired of asking you what's wrong and you've run o... NIKITTA GILL That I can learn to trust You, And every way to love You; Strip away all that remains, F... JOEL ENGLE Oh!" cried Anne eagerly, "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you, and by those who rese... JANE AUSTEN Miss Tick sniffed. 'You could say this advice is priceless,' she said. 'Are you listening?' 'Ye... TERRY PRATCHETT i find you in every echo, i find you in every dream, i find you in every feeling... CURTIS TYRONE JONES Better Associations: If you associate yourself with a change maker, Your life will b... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR so your father told you once that you were his princess you won't see the castle you ... HAYLEY WILLIAMS Eliza: The problem with YOU is that you don't take the RESPONSIBILITY for anything@ You think you ca... LAUREN BARNHOLDT The following are not my words, i have seen it some where . But i wish to share it here for every on... ANOOP ASHOK And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that ... KAHLIL GIBRAN Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily. He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,... CHARLES FINCH This is the secret of happiness that you have been looking for: If you are moving in the ... ABRAHAM HICKS nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whos... E.E. CUMMINGS Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things... MARIE KONDO to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held d... ELLEN BASS On Pleasure Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the... KAHLIL GIBRAN You exist in time, but you belong to eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the worl... OSHO How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, a... MARY OLIVER i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and n... E.E. CUMMINGS Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.’ James 1:17 If your vision in life... PATIENCE JOHNSON YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curli... CLINT CATALYST What if you determined to fin one thing every day that you -... I know. Count your blessi... ELIZABETH BERG In the boundaryless forests, there’re dancers of nude. Yet in the confines of pasture, ... ROMAN PAYNE
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JANE AUSTEN Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso... JANE AUSTEN You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have hear... JANE AUSTEN We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. JANE AUSTEN One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be... JANE AUSTEN It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ... JANE AUSTEN Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe... JANE AUSTEN I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ... JANE AUSTEN My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. JANE AUSTEN If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. JANE AUSTEN I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed femal... JANE AUSTEN It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. JANE AUSTEN It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respec... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN Well! Evil to some is always good to others. JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considera... JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the ... JANE AUSTEN I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan... JANE AUSTEN I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It... JANE AUSTEN What are men to rocks and mountains? JANE AUSTEN Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti... JANE AUSTEN One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at... JANE AUSTEN It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before JANE AUSTEN Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking. JANE AUSTEN In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the se... JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. JANE AUSTEN We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our me... JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead o... JANE AUSTEN When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to... JANE AUSTEN The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwel... JANE AUSTEN Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always ... JANE AUSTEN I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few d... JANE AUSTEN It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. JANE AUSTEN She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho... JANE AUSTEN One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fa... JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taug... JANE AUSTEN The distance is nothing when one has a motive. JANE AUSTEN Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. JANE AUSTEN A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of JANE AUSTEN My good opinion once lost is lost forever. JANE AUSTEN Till this moment I never knew myself. JANE AUSTEN He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal. JANE AUSTEN An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your... JANE AUSTEN From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, y... JANE AUSTEN To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love JANE AUSTEN You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell m... JANE AUSTEN I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with ... JANE AUSTEN I have not the pleasure of understanding you. JANE AUSTEN I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the... JANE AUSTEN Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air. JANE AUSTEN Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one... JANE AUSTEN It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and ... JANE AUSTEN An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her care... 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 There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give ... JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for t... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. JANE AUSTEN Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s... JANE AUSTEN Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the m... JANE AUSTEN A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in ... JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really... JANE AUSTEN What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. JANE AUSTEN There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. JANE AUSTEN There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. JANE AUSTEN Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. JANE AUSTEN A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sp... JANE AUSTEN The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without... JANE AUSTEN It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little t... JANE AUSTEN She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she wa... JANE AUSTEN Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo... JANE AUSTEN There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got al... JANE AUSTEN Beware how you give your heart. JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ... JANE AUSTEN Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affect... JANE AUSTEN You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth... JANE AUSTEN Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas... JANE AUSTEN Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say... JANE AUSTEN The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o... JANE AUSTEN We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. JANE AUSTEN It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these... JANE AUSTEN How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! JANE AUSTEN Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. JANE AUSTEN General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you. JANE AUSTEN Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums... JANE AUSTEN Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. JANE AUSTEN It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. JANE AUSTEN I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. JANE AUSTEN My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ... JANE AUSTEN One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it JANE AUSTEN But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ... JANE AUSTEN Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu bu... JANE AUSTEN It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno... JANE AUSTEN You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer. JANE AUSTEN It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in... JANE AUSTEN My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so m... JANE AUSTEN Vanity, not love, has been my folly. JANE AUSTEN They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again. JANE AUSTEN She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ... JANE AUSTEN She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ... JANE AUSTEN Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ... JANE AUSTEN I am excessively diverted. JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn... JANE AUSTEN Every thing nourishes what is strong already. JANE AUSTEN