Top 17 Longbourn Quotes
#1. He was glad that Pemberley was fifty miles from Longbourn and he hoped that his mother-in-law would not visit often.
Jane Grix
#2. Instead of receiving any such letter of excuse from his friend, as Elizabeth half expected Mr. Bingley to do, he was able to bring Darcy with him to Longbourn before many days had passed after Lady Catherine's visit.
Jane Austen
#3. Care for at a ball. They returned, therefore, in good spirits to Longbourn, the village where they lived, and of which
Jane Austen
#4. I had not the least idea of a gamekeeper's occupation being so dangerous - there had never been such a person employed on the Longbourn estate - and just as I had spent half the previous night wondering about Peter, I spent half the next one worrying about him.
Jennifer Paynter
#5. That the Miss Lucases and the Miss Bennets should meet to talk over a ball was absolutely necessary; and the morning after the assembly brought the former to Longbourn to hear and to communicate.
Jane Austen
#6. Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.
Rabbi Akiva
#7. She felt the dampness of her palms and wiped them on the back of her black cotton skirt.
Yiyun Li
#8. I think it's a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
Ai Weiwei
#9. The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them and to represent them distinctly and separately, because that demands great attention to its acts, and the majority of people, little accustomed to think, has little of it.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
#10. Sweet Phosphor, bring the dayWhose conquering rayMay chase these fogs;Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!Light will repayThe wrongs of night;Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!
Francis Quarles
#11. It is early in November of 1942 and a simply unbelievable amount of shit is going on, all at once, everywhere.
Neal Stephenson
#12. The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought: ...
Sri Aurobindo
#13. I realize now what a great job my wife Michelle did, not only in raising our children, Melissa, Amy, Dustin, and Jenna, but in taking care of me.
Robin Yount
#14. Nobody can tell you your purpose; only God and you know. People can only help you to find it yourself.
Ben Tolosa
#15. I believe in the freedom of the net, but I don't believe in the freedom of the net at the cost of having these online criminal gangs running completely loose and using the freedom of the net to steal everybody's money and take away the trust we have.
Mikko Hypponen
#16. Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are stewards of nothing in the long run.
Stephen Jay Gould