Time Quote by Jane Austen

“There will be some difficulty in our way, Mrs. Norris,” observed Sir Thomas, “as to the distinction proper to be made between the girls…

— Jane Austen

“Christ, he thinks, by my age I ought to know. You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright.…

— Hilary Mantel

“Thomas stood in the doorway like a chunk of useless iron, unable to take his gaze off the two women until they entered the…

— Amber Lynn Perry

“At least, he thinks, the fellow has the wit to see what this is about: not one year's grudge or two, but a fat…

— Hilary Mantel

“It was some months before Sir Thomas’s consent could be received; but in the mean while, as no one felt a doubt of his…

— Jane Austen

“Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone for ever.”

— Jane Austen

“Mr. Harrison was certainly different from other people…and that is the essential characteristic of a crank, as everybody knows.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Speech. Do not speak ill of others. A knight does not spread news that he does not know to be certain, or condemn things…

— Ethan Hawke

“Minerva considered herself a reasonably intelligent person, but good heavens . . . handsome men made her stupid. She grew so flustered around them,…

— Tessa Dare

“Just remember, Braithwaite. While you were learning to be a fool at Oxford I was learning to kill men. And I learned well.”

— Bernard Cornwell

Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to…

— Mildred D. Taylor

“Arthur Devlin, you and my husband may have been in the same grade, but you were never in the same class.”

— Clare Vanderpool