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Enjoyment Quotes by Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
- I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
- An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room,…
- His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
- I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I…
- I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
- Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.
- And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or…
- 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 Enjoyment Quotes
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,… — Honore de Balzac
- There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases… — Zygmunt Bauman
- The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but… — Joseph Addison
- True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation… — Joseph Addison
- The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the… — Walter Benjamin
- Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. — Giovanni Boccaccio
- Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly… — Daniel Boone
- The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get… — Damon Albarn
- The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to… — William Jennings Bryan
- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke
- A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation… — Fanny Burney