Emma Mr Knightley Quotes

#1. A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

Jane Austen

#2. Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them.

Jane Austen

#3. You might not see one in a hundred with
gentleman so plainly written as in Mr. Knightley.

Jane Austen

#4. It was a sweet view-sweet to the eye and the mind. English verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under a sun bright, without being oppressive.

Jane Austen

#5. You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.

Robert Alton Harris

#6. I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.

John Green

#7. I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.

Jane Austen

#8. The world moves fast, and so do the bees. Can we find the stillness to see them?

Hattie Ellis

#9. Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

Aileen Fisher

#10. If your friends never make you uncomfortable. You don't have friends. You have fans.

Darrin Patrick

#11. Badly done, Emma!

Jane Austen

#12. It did not often happen; for Mr. John Knightley had really a great regard for his father-in-law, and generally a strong sense of what was due to him; but it was too often for Emma's charity, especially as there was all the pain of apprehension frequently to be endured, though the offense came not.

Jane Austen

#13. You can't have a market without government, because governments create the rules of competition and enforce fairness in the markets, and they build the institutions within which competition takes place.

Douglas Massey

#14. If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. Gather up In the arms of your love - Those who expect No love from above.

Langston Hughes

#16. Feed your mind with the good, the clean, the pure, the powerful, and the positive

Zig Ziglar

#17. Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways.

W.T. Purkiser

#18. People are always misquoting me.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#19. Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?

Jane Austen

#20. There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

Jane Austen