Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Quote by Jane Austen

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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself....

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself....

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is...

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is...

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own...

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own...

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in...

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in...

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at...

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at...

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer...

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer...

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to...

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to...

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature...

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature...

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please,...

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please,...

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she...

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she...

The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not...

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not...

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years...

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years...

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do...

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do...

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is...

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is...

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.