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Children Quotes by Jane Austen
- A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.
- That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
- Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my…
- You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first…
- [Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called…
- Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?
- 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…
- Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no…
- Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no…
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon