Quotes About Jane Fairfax

#1. Jane Fairfax is a very charming young woman - but not even Jane Fairfax is perfect. She has a fault. She has not the open temper which a man would wish for in a wife. Emma

Jane Austen

#2. She regained the street
happy in this, that though much had been forced on her against her will, though she had in fact heard the whole substance of Jane Fairfax's letter, she had been able to escape the letter itself.

Jane Austen

#3. To be fair he is Lord Byron," Jane said. "I don't know many people who haven't slept with him at one time or another."
Jane Fairfax

Michael Thomas Ford

#4. Just because you're taught that something's right and everyone believes it's right, it don't make it right.

Mark Twain

#5. He yearned for something more.
It could have been his. It had been his.
Until he walked away.

Donna Grant

#6. I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had stumbled into a world where I thrived. Being up on those steep walls demanded the right amount of climbing skill, pain tolerance, and sheer bull-headedness that came naturally to me.

Tommy Caldwell

#7. Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

Margaret Atwood

#8. It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,' said he. 'Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.'
'Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.

Jane Austen

#9. Aidan said he'd never hurt me. Maybe he wouldn't do it on purpose, but vampires drink blood. Sooner or later, he'd want a midnight snack.

Jayde Scott

#10. Writing is a mixed blessing. We, who are addicted, berate ourselves and feel guilty when we don't write and at the same time put it off and hunt for diversions. Why? Because the this that makes us the happiest is also tedious, hard and frustrating. Writing makes us crazy; not writing even crazier.

Marcia Preston

#11. It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

Anthony Burgess

#12. But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm.

William Cowper

#13. Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

Mark Twain

#14. The right timing is not always our timing.

Joyce Meyer

#15. It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

Steven Kotler

#16. There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.

Chinua Achebe

#17. I also discovered Pilates when I got pregnant, as people kept saying it's a great way to stay in shape, and now I can't get enough - it's amazing. It helps with aches and pain and, even for non-pregnant people, it's a great way of getting those lean muscles.

Olivia Wilde

#18. We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

Jane Austen

#19. It's an alien toilet!" -Cassie

Katherine Applegate

#20. I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account.

D. B. Weiss

#21. [O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

Charlotte Bronte