Disposition Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image “She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disposition Lively Ridiculous
She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Her eyes, though tired, had the glint of one who never stopped expecting to be amused, and her mouth turned up at the corners… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“She was the kind of elegance That would never tarnish. A mixture of lace and mesh, Like a classic heirloom that begged to be… — M.J. Abraham Copy Share Image
What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She understood nothing, she learned nothing, so she just stood there, lively sometimes, joyful even, a groundless joy that brought tears to their eyes,… — Jean-Christophe Valtat Copy Share Image
There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Certainly she was wonderfully beautiful. All that could be said of her that was in any sense critical was that there seemed to be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“a radiant and infectious, almost childlike gaiety which was always bubbling over into delighted and delightful laughter.” — George Sayer Copy Share Image
Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic… — Henry Miller 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
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Being a Catholic, I was drawn to the mystery of the Latin and the smoke and the mirrors and all of that. That part… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be. — Martha Washington Copy Share Image
True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of… — Charles James Copy Share Image
There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
