Nature is wont to hide herself. —Jane Austen More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Jane Austen Jane Austen ( OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
More quotations from Jane Austen A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. —Jane Austen More about this quote Tags: money Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. —Jane Austen More about this quote Tags: memory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email One man's folly is another man's wife. —Jane Austen More about this quote Tags: marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email All people want is someone to listen. —Jane Austen More about this quote Tags: friendship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Strive for excellence, not perfection. —Jane Austen More about this quote Tags: excellence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. —Jane Austen More about this quote Tags: money Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. —Jane Austen More about this quote Tags: memory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One man's folly is another man's wife. —Jane Austen More about this quote Tags: marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All people want is someone to listen. —Jane Austen More about this quote Tags: friendship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Strive for excellence, not perfection. —Jane Austen More about this quote Tags: excellence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “nature” Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. —Heraclitus More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal. —Frank Lloyd Wright More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. —E. B. White More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions. —Daniel Webster More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Nature does nothing uselessly. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. —Heraclitus More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal. —Frank Lloyd Wright More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. —E. B. White More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions. —Daniel Webster More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nature does nothing uselessly. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email