What did Jane Austen mean by: Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side. Jane Austen Author · England Copy
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Independence, Preservation, Value, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Books, Distraction, Socializing, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
+ Women are the only correspondents to be depended on. Author, August 28, 2023January 2, 2025, Jane Austen, Communication, Gender, Trustworthiness, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Hospitality, Leisure, Romance, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Discontent, Exploration, Perception, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
+ With women, the heart argues, not the mind. Author, June 16, 2023January 2, 2025, Jane Austen, Conflict, Emotions, Gender, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Beauty, Isolation, Wasted, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Austen, Clarity, Communication, Misunderstanding, 0 Jane Austen Author · England
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Read explanation François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Read explanation François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
