Woodhouse Quotes

#1. There was a strange rumor in Highbury of all the little Perrys being seen with a slice of Mrs. Weston's wedding-cake in their hands: but Mr. Woodhouse would never believe it.

Jane Austen

#2. Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them.

Jane Austen

#3. What the mind believes the body will often make reality." Dr. Woodhouse to Caulder and Ginny.

Kristen D. Randle

#4. The phone conversations about a possible TV series of 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' stretch back years, but now that the moment has come, now that I am actually here at Wentworth Woodhouse, I lose my bearings.

Susanna Clarke

#5. desk simply to say: "Would you be willing to be parachuted into Greece next week?"' Woodhouse thought about it for a moment. 'There seemed no reason to say No, so I said Yes.'5 He reasoned that it would be a good opportunity to practise his Greek.

Giles Milton

#6. I suppose you have heard of the handsome letter Mr. Frank Churchill had written to Mrs. Weston? I understand it was a very handsome letter, indeed. Mr. Woodhouse told me of it. Mr. Woodhouse saw the letter, and he says he never saw such a handsome letter in his life.

Jane Austen

#7. There are some people who start off knowing very little about the world and end up years later knowing even less. Never underestimate the capacity of the human mind for ignorance. Mr. Woodhouse found this very amusing.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

Jane Austen

#9. Move over, Emma Woodhouse. You have met your match.

Diane Moody

#10. You are what you believe you are.We make images in our minds of what will be based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of." Dr. Woodhouse to Caulder and Ginny

Kristen D. Randle

#11. Oh! Miss Woodhouse, the comfort of being sometimes alone!

Jane Austen

#12. A loved one from us has gone, A voice we love is stilled. A place is vacant in our home, Which never will be filled. Estelle Woodhouse, 1898-1987

Jan Karon

#13. Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.

Ira Levin

#14. whenever you are transplanted, like me, Miss Woodhouse, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has left behind. I always say this is quite one of the evils of matrimony.

Jane Austen

#15. Heavens! let me not suppose that she dares go about Emma Woodhouse-ing me! But, upon my honour, there seems no limits to the licentiousness of that woman's tongue!

Jane Austen

#16. One has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.

Barbara Woodhouse

#17. This water tastes like it was in a bowl.

Robert Woodhouse

#18. The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

Barbara Woodhouse

#19. There is nothing a pig loves more than a good bath, with a loofah and plenty of soap flakes ... There is something delightfully lovable about a really clean pig, in clean yellow straw.

Barbara Woodhouse

#20. I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.

Barbara Woodhouse

#21. Dogs aren't born knowing what or what not to do; they only learn like children.

Barbara Woodhouse

#22. I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world ...

Barbara Woodhouse

#23. It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,' said he. 'Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.'
'Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.

Jane Austen

#24. I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one.

Barbara Woodhouse

#25. Dogs understand your moods and your thoughts, and if you are thinking unpleasant things about your dog, he will pick it up and be downhearted.

Barbara Woodhouse

#26. I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer.

Barbara Woodhouse

#27. Talking to animals' isn't a matter of words used, it is a matter of your thoughts, your expression, and above all the tone of your voice. A harsh voice from me can make my cows jump in terror. I shouted at old Queenie once and she got such a shock that she fell down just as if she'd been shot ...

Barbara Woodhouse

#28. When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing.

Barbara Woodhouse

#29. The eyes of a dog, the expression of a dog, the warmly wagging tail of a dog and the gloriously cold damp nose of a dog were in my opinion all God-given for one purpose only-to make complete fools of us human beings.

Barbara Woodhouse

#30. An uncivilized race is always at war. A system of mutual fear, hatred and injury seems to be the normal condition of savage man, in all ages and in every part of the world. As

F.C. Woodhouse

#31. Sin is sin. There aren't little sins and big sins. There are sins that are more acceptable than others and still other sins that bear greater consequences in the world. But God can't abide it in any form.

Kimberley Woodhouse

#32. Yeah," Yolandi grunted, "shoot that hot bug juice up inside of me.

Eb Woodhouse

#33. I can not impress on my readers too strongly the necessity to be firm but kind to a puppy. His idea of your authority is forming, and if he knows you give in on the slightest whimper, you are wacked for life.

Barbara Woodhouse

#34. Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.

Barbara Woodhouse