Quotes About Colonel Fitzwilliam

#1. Colonel Fitzwilliam's manners were very much admired at the Parsonage, and the ladies all felt that he must add considerably to the pleasures of their engagements at Rosings. It was some days, however, before they received any invitation thither - for while there

Jane Austen

#2. You must forgive my cousin, Mr. Carroll; his manners are deplorable."
Colonel Fitzwilliam feigned offence and turned to the butler while addressing his cousin's barb. "Mr. Carroll and I have an understanding, don't we, man? He knows I prefer to walk in unannounced.

KaraLynne Mackrory

#3. I'd rather write about polar bears than people.

Mary Oliver

#4. Breuning drove. Dudley sat up front Carlisle sat in back, with three sawed-off shotguns.

James Ellroy

#5. He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Jules Michelet

#6. Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.

Evan Esar

#7. Gracious, soft-voiced girls, who were brought up on memories instead of money.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. On the contrary, she is one of us. Most decidedly. She is us more than we are us. She is, I think, who we really are. Or were.

Jerry Spinelli

#9. Laia. The Scholar girl. Another ember waiting to burn the world down,' she says. 'Will you hurt her too?

Sabaa Tahir

#10. While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.

Jim Cooper

#11. Thank you Mr. Carroll. You will have to excuse my cousin; he seems to have lost his mind along with his manners.

KaraLynne Mackrory

#12. I am the fierce one who threatens death to scoundrels, Darcy." Fitzwilliam scolded. "You are the one who keeps a cool head and prevents it. That is the order of things.

Diana J. Oaks

#13. For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.

Alan Cumming

#14. The gentle Rabbi reminds us that few things really matter and only one thing is necessary ... Martha found it in the gentle reminder to slow down, let go, and be careful of challenging another woman's choices, for you never know when she may be sitting at the feet of God.

Rachel Held Evans

#15. She crossed her arms across her chest, and for a moment, Richard thought she looked a lot like her brother, only more like an adorable, angry kitten.

KaraLynne Mackrory

#16. For the first time, Smollett adopted a device that Barbara Foley calls "pseudofactual imposture," a strategy of presentation that we associate with the fictions of Behn, Defoe, and Richardson.

Tobias Smollett

#17. Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: Well, who are the best people to live with?

Lafcadio Hearn

#18. Only the most passionate, forthright kind of love would ever induce her to enter the confining state of matrimony.

Melanie Dickerson

#19. They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

Jeanette Winterson

#20. The colonel laughed, effectively halting Bingley's speech. "Uncharacteristically reclusive? Do we speak if the same man? Darcy's very character is defined by his reclusiveness! He prefers to keep his own counsel, especially when he ought to do the opposite - the bacon-brained buffoon.

KaraLynne Mackrory

#21. They agreed, however, that they could wish them only as much joy as they had together, refusing to be dislodged from their position as the happiest couple in the world, by anyone.

Rebecca Ann Collins

#22. I have come to realise that your are the most important person in the world to me, and I wanted to know if you would consider ... if you would do me the honour of becoming my wife

C. Allyn Pierson