Quotes About Tilney

#1. Her passion for ancient edifices was next in degree to her passion for Henry Tilney
and castles and abbeys made usually the charm of those reveries which his image did not fill.

Jane Austen

#2. Catherine [ ... ] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

Jane Austen

#3. Junction at the top of the stairs. She gave a curious glance down General Tilney's corridor, but she

Val McDermid

#4. I would have jumped out and run after you.'
Is there a Henry in the world who could be insensible to such a declaration? Henry Tilney at least was not. With a yet sweeter smile, he said every thing that need be said ...

Jane Austen

#5. We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Frederick Tilney

#6. The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.

Frederick Tilney

#7. When it comes to standing up for veterans, we cannot be the Republicans and Democrats, we have to be the red, white, and blue party.

Barbara Mikulski

#8. Worry is like a kettle full of water, it felt as if my mind was on the boil at a ferocious intensity with no opportunity to let off steam. There is nothing you can do but get through it as best you can.

Philip Gould

#9. He stepped over to Vidian and turned the man's head. There, in his left ear, he saw a small dataport. A moment's revulsion struck and passed. "All right," he said. "Who wants to download Vidian's brain?

John Jackson Miller

#10. The artist and the multitude are natural enemies. They always will be, both ways. The artist is an enemy of the multitude, and the multitude is the enemy of the artist. And when the disguise comes off and they're both standing facing one another, they're just there at odds end.

Robert Altman

#11. A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.

Stephen Fry

#12. When a man tells me that a horse is an armchair, I always tell him to put the brute into his bedroom.

Anthony Trollope

#13. I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

Anne Graham Lotz

#14. Your best friend is the person who not only knows all the important stories and events in your life, but has lived through them with you. Your best friend isn't the person you call when you are in jail; mostly likely, she is sitting in the cell beside you.

Irene S. Levine

#15. Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away. Til what we put off til tomorrow has now become today.

Garth Brooks

#16. No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

Mary Kay Ash

#17. Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.

Dan Buettner

#18. Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

William Cobbett

#19. Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

W. Somerset Maugham

#20. If life is a party, you should be the one throwing it!

Talia Carner