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  • #1
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #2
    Douglas Adams
    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
    Douglas Adams

  • #3
    Douglas Adams
    “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

    There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #4
    Douglas Adams
    “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #5
    Douglas Adams
    “The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
    Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

  • #6
    Douglas Adams
    “Don't Panic.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #7
    Douglas Adams
    “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
    Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

  • #8
    Douglas Adams
    “Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #9
    Douglas Adams
    “A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #10
    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #11
    Douglas Adams
    “For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #13
    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #14
    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #15
    Jane Austen
    “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #16
    Jane Austen
    “An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #17
    Jane Austen
    “My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
    Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice

  • #18
    Jane Austen
    “There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
    "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
    "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #19
    Jane Austen
    “Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #20
    Jane Austen
    “I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #21
    Jane Austen
    “It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #22
    Jane Austen
    “I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #23
    Jane Austen
    “Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “I dearly love a laugh... I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #26
    Jane Austen
    “Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #27
    Jane Austen
    “for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #28
    Jane Austen
    “What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #29
    Jane Austen
    “I should infinitely prefer a book...”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #30
    Jane Austen
    “It is amazing to me," said Bingley, "How young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are."
    "All young ladies accomplished? My dear Charles, what do you mean?"
    "Yes, all of them, I think. They all paint tables, cover screens and net purses. I scarcely know any one who cannot do all this, and I am sure I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time without being informed that she was very accomplished."
    "Your list of the common extent of accomplishments," said Darcy, "has too much truth. The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen. But I am very far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general. I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen, in the whole range of my acquaintance, that are really accomplished."
    "Nor I, I am sure." said Miss Bingley.
    "Then," observed Elizabeth, "you must comprehend a great deal in your idea of an accomplished woman."
    "Yes, I do comprehend a great deal in it."
    "Oh! certainly," cried his faithful assistant, "no one can really be esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half deserved."
    "All this she must possess," added Darcy, "and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading."
    "I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder at your knowing any.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice



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