Countrywoman Quotes

#1. I have discovered that our great favorite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman ... with whom mamma before her marriage was acquainted. Mamma says that she was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers ...

Mary Russell Mitford

#2. The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

Karl Lagerfeld

#3. One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?

Bruce Feiler

#4. I would have jumped out and run after you.'
Is there a Henry in the world who could be insensible to such a declaration? Henry Tilney at least was not. With a yet sweeter smile, he said every thing that need be said ...

Jane Austen

#5. I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

Susan Orlean

#6. Love is, I decided, being a sidekick

Penny Reid

#7. Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do.

Theodore Von Karman

#8. Death was not prejudiced by mortal things such as station or gender. It came for kings and queens and prostitutes alike, often leaving the living with regrets. What might we have done differently if we'd known the end was so near?

Kerri Maniscalco

#9. For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and satisfied, drove on into the night.

Douglas Adams

#10. I'm intoxicated with this man, my man, my Fifty Shades.

E.L. James