Maggie > Maggie's Quotes

“If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.”
― Lauren Bacall

“When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.”
― Lauren Bacall

“I’m not ashamed of what I am - of how I pass through this life. What I am has given me the strength to do it. At my lowest ebb I have never contemplated suicide. I value what is here too much. I have a contribution to make. I am not just take up space in this life. I can add something to the lives I touch. I don’t like everything I know about myself, and I’ll never be satisfied, but nobody’s perfect. I’m not sure where the next years will take me - what they will hold - but I’m open to suggestions.”
― Lauren Bacall

“I am not a has-been. I am a will be.”
― Lauren Bacall

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“Angry people are not always wise.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
― Jane Austen

“What strange creatures brothers are!”
― Jane Austen

“A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”
― Jane Austen

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.”
― Jane Austen

“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”
― Jane Austen

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice