Absurd Quote by Jane Austen

“You judge very properly," said Mr. Bennet, "and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I…

— Jane Austen

“Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to…

— Jane Austen

“Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her drew him oftener from home than anything else could do. He delighted in…

— Jane Austen

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the…

— Marquis de Sade

Ben was a very simple straightforward man with a brilliant quick mind.

— Walter Schloss

“When he was gone, they were certain at least of receiving constant information of what was going on, and their uncle promised, at parting,…

— Jane Austen

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

“He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in the light…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“Ben had the most expressive face I’d ever seen. When he told a story, he dove into it, re-enacting each character with a new…

— Hilary Duff

How curious it was, how ironic, he decided, that the human brain seemed capable of understanding almost everything but itself.

— Anonymous

“He wasn't the least bit disturbed that his intuition was wrong: intuition often missed, sometimes spectacularly, but when it connected it saved so much…

— Jim Dodge

“He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled them now.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky