Novelist Quotes

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"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."

-- Jane Austen

"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."

-- Jane Austen

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

-- Jane Austen

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

-- Jane Austen

"Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope."

-- Jane Austen

"Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope."

-- Jane Austen

"You must be the best judge of your own happiness."

-- Jane Austen

"You must be the best judge of your own happiness."

-- Jane Austen

"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

"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

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."

-- Jane Austen

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."

-- Jane Austen

"Indulge your imagination in every possible flight."

-- Jane Austen

"Indulge your imagination in every possible flight."

-- 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

"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

"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

"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

"I wish as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."

-- 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

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

-- 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

"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

"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

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I'm not going to be a hero. I'm going to be a writer."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I'm not going to be a hero. I'm going to be a writer."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"You must be prepared to work always without applause."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"You must be prepared to work always without applause."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Every man should have a hobby."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Every man should have a hobby."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"One cat just leads to another."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"One cat just leads to another."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults... but I'm very faithful."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults... but I'm very faithful."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth..."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth..."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different..."

-- Ernest Hemingway

"I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different..."

-- Ernest Hemingway