What did Jane Austen mean by: Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. Jane Austen Author · England Copy
+ Those who do not complain are never pitied. Author, September 28, 2023January 2, 2025, Jane Austen, Complaint, Perseverance, Pity, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Perception, Time, Understanding, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
Eleanor went to her room “where she was free to think and be wretched. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Isolation, Reflection, Suffering, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Criticism, Humor, Wit, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Disrespect, Power, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
+ Time, time will heal the wound. Author, September 13, 2023January 2, 2025, Jane Austen, Healing, Recovery, Time, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
+ I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Change, Reflection, Selfishness, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Forgiveness, Hope, Selfishness, 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
