Vintage Jane Austen Quotes

#1. In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

Florence King

#2. You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it. And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decision-making. I didn't date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No.

Taylor Swift

#3. He cracked his crooked smile that made all women swoon except the ones who wanted to slap him. Faye was a fence-sitter on the subject.

Sarah Scheele

#4. Kindness has the warmth in it and it can melt a hateful heart.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Islam will win with or without you, but without Islam you will get lost and lose.

Ahmed Deedat

#6. Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

Samuel Johnson

#7. It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.

Jodi Picoult

#8. Back home. What wonderful words. What a wonderful place.

Dan Groat

#9. And I'd have you know, through all of it, I still had perfect nails! Because I am completely swell.

Sarah Scheele

#10. I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist.

Gene Pitney

#11. I can't give a soundbite for love or money.

John Rhys-Davies

#12. I'll go for God, country, and my baby. Sure, as these teardrops burn, I promise to return, and when I'm home, I'll cling to the arms of my baby.

Johnny Burnette

#13. We delude ourselves if we think that decency is not rewarded in other people simply because we refuse to practice it ourselves.

Sarah Scheele

#14. Everyone has problems. When you think you want to end your life, maybe you could be there for someone else and can learn something.

Courteney Cox

#15. Love is a treacherous emotion. You will fare better without it. We Medici always have.

C.W. Gortner