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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Quote by Jane Austen about beauty, life

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Quote by Jane Austen about perfection, day

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Quote by Jane Austen about proudness, vanity, opinion, word, people, being, things

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Quote by Jane Austen about proudness, vanity, heads

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Quote by Jane Austen about morality

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Quote by Jane Austen about man, people

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Quote by Jane Austen about wife, mother

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Quote by Jane Austen about self-control

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Quote by Jane Austen about opinion

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

Quote by Jane Austen about youth, reason, being, world

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

Quote by Jane Austen about woman, man

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the...

Quote by Jane Austen about woman, fashion, man

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

Quote by Jane Austen about mistake, respect, old, olderness, contentment

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Quote by Bette Davis about time

I could see the concern on Jane's face and how she didn't want to tell me that she didn't think it was a very good movie.

Quote by Peter Fonda about worry, good, good luck, face

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.

Quote by Peter Fonda about work, love

On several occasions as children, Jane and I were allowed to be with the grown-ups at the parties they'd have at our house, though there weren't many.

Quote by Peter Fonda about home, house, children

There is that backlog of talent: Henry and Jane. Considering that, considering them, this business requires incredible strength. I must not get tripped up by a comparative attitude.

Quote by Peter Fonda about attitude, affair, talent

When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.

Quote by Peter Fonda about children, thinking, people

You know who helped me a lot? Jane Fonda. She said, Look at how many times I've been up and I've been down. So don't worry about anything.

Quote by Melanie Griffith about worry, contentment