Quotes About Mary Bennet

#1. Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

Jonathan Barnbrook

#2. Elizabeth's tears had wrung my heart: I longed to enfold her in my arms, to comfort her, but I knew
it would be infamous indeed to take such advantage of her distress.

Mary Street

#3. Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.

Jennifer Paynter

#4. I hardened my heart against all the Bennets. - Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy.

Mary Street

#5. Hello, Mary.'
It was like hearing a note of divine calm after a dissonant passage of music. My confusion died away.

Jennifer Paynter

#6. I had never in all my life felt so elated. Peter cared for me! It was a miracle I longed to celebrate - to tell all Hertfordshire - and I had to hold my hand to my mouth against an involuntary smile.

Jennifer Paynter

#7. This made my father laugh. 'Mary made a cake, did she? Well, well. Better that than she should make a cake for herself, I suppose.'
Peter then burst out: 'Why must you always be making a game of Mary? 'Tis not fair; 'tis not sporting.

Jennifer Paynter

#8. A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#9. A fool is blind to opportunity because he does not have eyes in his head.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. I saw that he was looking anxious.
'I thought you weren't coming.' As he spoke, he grasped my hand. And if the sight of him had not quite restored the magic, the touch of him most certainly did. 'You're not wishing yourself some place else, Mary?

Jennifer Paynter

#11. He tiger is the very soul of India,&when the last tiger has gone,so will the soul of the country.

Ruskin Bond

#12. All conflict comes from attachment.

Anthony De Mello

#13. Peter was now standing very close - as if he wanted to comfort me - as if he knew how hurt I felt that Mrs Knowles had not asked me to play or to sing. And I did feel comforted. It was as if a tide of warmth was carrying me out of myself, inclining me to trust him and to conduct myself well.

Jennifer Paynter

#14. You may be a redneck if ... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

Jeff Foxworthy

#15. Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Fran Lebowitz

#16. When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over more pages than I read.

Mary Street

#17. I felt my mouth go dry, my throat constrict. What possible interpretation could Peter place on those words, other than that they were about him? - that the entire song was about him?

Jennifer Paynter

#18. It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.

Sherwood Anderson

#19. I found I could listen without envy to Letty's singing, and afterwards when the applause came, I did not mind that Mrs Knowles was heaping praises upon her. Peter's hands were on my chair, and when I leaned back I could feel them against my shoulders.

Jennifer Paynter

#20. I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.

Jennifer Paynter

#21. Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?

Madeleine M. Kunin

#22. "thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events.

Raimon Panikkar

#23. Ah yes.' Peter's tone was scornful. 'And they must always be paid before the poor tradesmen's bills, mustn't they?'
'They must indeed. They are debts of honour.'
'Oh, Mary.' He leant over and kissed me quickly. 'What a lot we'll have to argue about after we're married.

Jennifer Paynter

#24. Wild things belong in the wild, not in a castle.

George R R Martin

#25. For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reasons was that there were so few alternatives available. Readers who loved Tolkien, and who were not satisfied by Terry Brooks, had nowhere else to turn.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#26. Peter.' It was the first time I had used his name. 'You heard me sing tonight, did you not?'
'Yes, love.'
The endearment took my breath away - made me forget what I meant to say. I stood there with but one thought: He must care about me.

Jennifer Paynter

#27. I have the person at home, the person who has his privacy, too. Michael Jackson didn't do the moonwalk in his kitchen.

Tracy Morgan

#28. At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song - a solemn, sweet song. (I know now that it was Beethoven's Romance in F.) I listened, and suddenly it was as if the fog that surrounded me had been penetrated, as if I were being spoken to.

Jennifer Paynter

#29. We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#30. Trust is built. Ours just needs to be rebuilt and it takes time. But baby, we'll do it together.

Nashoda Rose

#31. Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.

Mary Street