Mariem Selmi > Mariem's Quotes

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“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, Northanger Abbey

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“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

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
― Mark Twain

“I dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But no one relishes the process.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

“What good is money if it can't buy happiness?”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

“It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

“I had the strength to rebel, but I did not have the strength to let go.”
― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love

“Emotions are powerful sources of energy. They are what makes us alive. They provide proof of our souls.”
― Emma Raveling, Whirl

“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“ Rien n’est plus trompeur qu’une photo : on croit fixer un moment heureux pour l’éternité alors qu’on ne crée que de la nostalgie ”
― Guillaume Musso, Sauve-moi

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“الرجل المنتعل نسيانه
نسى ان يربط حبل حذائه
حتما
سيتعثر بالذكريات.....!!”
― احلام مستغانمی

“ذلك ان الصمت يحتاج في لحظة ما ان يكسره الكلام( ليكون صمتا )”
― أحلام مستغانمي

“لا الحب يستطيع من اجلك شيئا و لا الارق.لازوارق فالافق..فغادري مرفأ الانتظار”
― احلام مستغانمي

“إن أهدتك الحياة هذا الطائر النبيل حبيباً . إنها فرصتك لتعيشي أسطورة الحب الكبير . حافظي عليه بالصبر علي ظلمه . كدبي شكوكه بالوفاء . اخلصي له مهما طال الفراق . فالطائر النبيل يعود دوماً .”
― أحلام مستغانمي

“لا أحد يعلمنا كيف نحب .. كيف لانشقى .. كيف ننسى..كيف نتداوى من إدمان صوت من نحب..كيف نكسر ساعة الحب..كيف لا نسهر .. كيف لا ننتظر”
― أثير عبدالله النشمي

“Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

“Like all intelligent people, she functions very well in extreme disorder.”
― Eva Rice, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets