Attention Quote by Jane Austen

“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.”

Jane Austen

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings)

More by Jane Austen

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Jane Austen

Image

“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!”

Jane Austen

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

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

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

Image

“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.”

Jane Austen

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

Image

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

Jane Austen

Image

“But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.”

Jane Austen

Image

“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”

Jane Austen

Image

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

Jane Austen

Image

“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment”

Jane Austen

Image

Explore all 2,013 Jane Austen quotes

More Attention quotes

It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always…

David Ricardo

Image

People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very…

Ardal O'Hanlon

Image

Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands…

Joseph Prince

Image

By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological…

Deepak Chopra

Image

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Henry David Thoreau

Image

What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves.…

Lzzy Hale

Image

For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention…

Jed Diamond

Image

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave…

Minor White

Image

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any…

Lou Reed

Image

I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and…

Mahershala Ali

Image

The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...…

Daniel Goleman

Image

Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will…

Andy Murray

Image

Browse all 9,555 Attention quotes

Attention Quote by Jane Austen

Related quotes

More by Jane Austen

More Attention quotes