Disposition Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““…—We have not all, you know, the same tenderness of disposition…”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disposition Tenderness
“Sometimes things acquire a tenderness, a monstrous tenderness we don’t expect from them.” — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
“Tenderness can be born only of respect for individualities. Tenderness builds its nest in little things, in the absurdities of a face, in personal… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness. As long as there is desire, we will not be safe” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Whenever we’re offered love, we should accept it … wherever we encounter tenderness, we should embrace it.” — Glenn Meade Copy Share Image
“The stability I had previously taken for granted was replaced by the pain that arrived when you learn that and you love is going… — Marisa Renee Lee Copy Share Image
“Only when I dropped the notion that I was the creator of my own peace or oneness, or that I was powerful enough to… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“And the more I knew my feebleness, my flaws, and my shortcomings, the more I knew His gentleness toward me, His tender glance, His… — Katie Davis Majors 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
