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Years Quotes by Jane Austen
- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her…
- Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the…
- Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of…
- She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of…
- The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for…
- it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all…
- the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth…
- 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…
- It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
- If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
- 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…
- No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his…
- You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for…
- Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our…
- 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 Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz