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Disposition Quotes by Jane Austen
- To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality…
- If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I…
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever…
- 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…
- She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.
- I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.
- A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition…
- We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be…
- It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with…
- She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though…
- It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to…
- She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.
- The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing
- Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had…
More Disposition Quotes
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as… — John Adams
- A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. — Edmund Burke
- Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good… — Giacomo Casanova
- A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those… — Margaret Cavendish
- Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. — Oswald Chambers
- If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other… — Chanakya
- Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. — Thomas Aquinas
- You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition. — Emmet Fox
- If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother. — Booker T. Washington
- There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin