Sir Walter Elliot Quotes

#1. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.

Jane Austen

#2. Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; ...

Jane Austen

#3. Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.

Clare Wright

#4. Still, however, she had the sensation of there being something more than immediately appeared, in Mr Elliot's wishing, after an interval of so many years, to be well received by them. In a worldly view, he had nothing to gain by being on terms with Sir Walter; nothing to risk by a state of variance.

Jane Austen

#5. Here is a couple more things I can't spell without you, disgust and distrust.

Rickey Russell

#6. We must not let history repeat itself in Iraq. The reality is there is no military solution in Iraq. This is a sectarian war with long standing roots that were flamed when we invaded Iraq in 2003. Any lasting solution must be political and take into account respect for the entire Iraqi population.

Barbara Lee

#7. Being different, being unique ... that afforded me a life, a journey that I am now so thankful for.

Shaun Hick

#8. We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far.

Holly Black

#9. Clinging to one's outward appearance interferes with living.

Kobo Abe

#10. I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and the countless others that are out there, that we are the only forms of life.

Ian Bremmer

#11. The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

Satchel Paige

#12. No one ever made a difference by following the rules.

Heather Killough-Walden

#13. How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

Lisa See

#14. The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

Fred Brooks

#15. I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age ... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret!

Kirsten Prout