What did Jane Austen mean by: Respect for right conduct is felt by every body. Jane Austen Author · England Copy
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Pessimism, Prejudice, Skepticism, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Fate, Love, Marriage, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Independence, Individuality, Spirituality, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
+ She wished such words unsaid with all her heart Author, September 7, 2023January 2, 2025, Jane Austen, Communication, Heartache, Regret, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Insecurity, Validation, Vulnerability, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Playfulness, Ridiculousness, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Conviction, Deception, Integrity, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
+ Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth. Author, September 11, 2023January 2, 2025, Jane Austen, Attachment, Poverty, Wealth, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it. Read explanation Jennifer Stone Actress · USA
A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom