Ease Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image “His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ease Enjoyment Integrity Particular Principles Ruling
“There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He feared that principle, active principle, had been wanting; that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers by that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his own sensations; but the… — marcus aurelius Copy Share Image
“Though he had determined upon this in the first moment of joyful enthusiasm, yet the delay of four-and-twenty hours had made a material change… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“He always kept up his spirits, and was able in literary circles to show that he could hold his own. But he was driven… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not… — Charles James Fox 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
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. — David Deida Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked about Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi, I always answer: 'Neymar is the best,' not just because of his goals but because… — Roberto Carlos Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise. — Alan S. Kesselheim Copy Share Image
This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients’ “ease” but at the same time they do… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
