Kwn > Kwn's Quotes

Showing 1-18 of 18
sort by

  • #1
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    Jane Austen

  • #6
    Jane Austen
    “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
    'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #10
    Sun Tzu
    “Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #11
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #12
    George Clooney
    “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.”
    George Clooney

  • #13
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #14
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Reader, I married him.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #15
    Colleen Hoover
    “There are three questions every woman should be able to answer yes to before they commit to a man. If you answer no to any of the three questions, run like hell."
    [...]
    "Does he treat you with respect at all times? That's the first question. The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to marry him? And finally, does he inspire to be a better person? You find someone you can answer yes to all three, then you've found a good man.”
    Colleen Hoover, Slammed

  • #16
    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
    E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

  • #17
    Nicholas Sparks
    “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”
    Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

  • #18
    Markus Zusak
    “She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief



Rss