"The distance is nothing when one has a…" — Jane Austen
"The distance is nothing when one has a motive."
—
Jane Austen
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
691 Quotes by Jane Austen
Jane Austen has 691 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
-
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
-
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
-
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being…
-
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
-
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
-
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
-
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
-
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect…
-
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
-
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
-
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
See all 691 quotes by Jane Austen »
More Distance Quotes
This quote is filed under Distance Quotes,
one of 2,234 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
-
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
— Richard Bach
-
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone,…
— Emily Greene Balch
-
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
— Alan Ball
-
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point…
— Henry Ward Beecher
-
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
— Ugo Betti
-
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his…
— Ambrose Bierce
-
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
— Theodor Adorno
-
It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're…
— Lewis Black
-
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
— Aesop
-
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become…
— Bono
-
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
— Victor Borge
See all 2,234 Distance Quotes »