English Quotes
260 quotes in this collection
"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."
-- Jane Austen"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
-- Jane Austen"I wish as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."
-- 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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
-- Jane Austen"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
-- Jane Austen"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
-- Jane Austen"One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the presence of someone, and then it is better to be alone."
-- Virginia Woolf"To believe that your impressions hold good for others is to be released from the confines of your own personality."
-- Virginia Woolf"A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it."
-- Virginia Woolf"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
-- Virginia Woolf"Across the broad continent of a woman’s life, her biography is almost entirely a blank."
-- Virginia Woolf"A farm, a house, a garden, a small income, and the work that one chooses and loves—that is the good life."
-- Virginia Woolf
