Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“A person who does not wear a watch is not going anywhere and is not going to do anything.” — Athena Coleman Copy Share Image
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“A clock and a watch may be different, but time is all they talk about.” — Eduvie Donald Copy Share Image
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“If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that would continue… — Samantha Sotto Copy Share Image
“(in regards to watches) They were such insidious little machines- always there to pressure you, to make you fixate on what was next instead… — Kyle Mills Copy Share Image
“I’ll write the time on my wrist, and I’ll cover it up by wearing a watch.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“When the battery in my watch died, I still wore it. There was something about the watch that said: It doesn’t matter what time… — Chris Huntington Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
