Amusement Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image “And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amusement Excellence Perfection Sick Wicked
Well, if you're talking about perfection, I'll show you the image of my backside. — Onew Copy Share Image
I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth and progressing.… — Michael Angelakos Copy Share Image
Perfection: a collection of a variety of pieces that, when viewed and felt individually, are difficult and confusing; but when brought together as one,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
I love the flaws and foibles of people - I'm much more interested in that than perfections. — Jessie Buckley 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
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through… — Amanda McBroom Copy Share Image
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I like these boots," I told Vayl. "Do you think they'd sell them to me cheap? I keep ruining mine." "Since when do you… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image