"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible." — Jane Austen
"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."
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691 Quotes by Jane Austen
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being…
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect…
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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More Cannot Speak Quotes
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
— Jean Cocteau
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
— Aldous Huxley
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A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
— Euripides
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To my mind, you cannot speak about the need for leadership within our communities without being prepared to take on…
— Jackie Huggins
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Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their…
— Unknown Author
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The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the…
— Werner Heisenberg
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We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The…
— Wangari Maathai
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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.
— Archibald MacLeish
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True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing…
— Desmond Tutu
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You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot…
— Jim Rohn
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The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite,…
— Galileo Galilei
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