Tilney's Quotes

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

Val McDermid

#2. 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

#3. Nurturing self-confidence is a daily endeavour.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. This is where I want to be. Right here. Satiated and limp form pleasure with Z. Beautiful and whole from love with Z. I'm happy here.

Sarah Ann Walker

#7. Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.

Steven Erikson

#8. In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles ... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.

James Brown

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

Frederick Tilney

#10. 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

#11. All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.

David Bailey

#12. A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work.

Albert Pinkham Ryder