Jane Austen Quotes

Quote Image
BackgroundBackgroundBackgroundBackground

Information


Author | December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817
Cite This Page: Citation

Quotes to Discover

The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
Søren Kierkegaard
Quote Image
I thought Bolt was amazing, I mean, beating the world record and slowing down at the end, how galling has that got the for the other athletes? I never managed to do anything in 9.69 seconds, it took me ten seconds to watch him do that.
Usain Bolt
I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.
Morgan Freeman
We live in a society where there is no law in making money in the promulgation of ignorance or, in some cases, stupidity. There are a lot of things you can say never happened. You can go as relatively quasi-harmless as saying no one went to the moon. But you also can say that the Holocaust never happened.
Tom Hanks
Quote Image
We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash.
Steve Jobs
In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.
Immanuel Kant
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
Det er ganske sandt, hvad Philosophien siger, at Livet maa forstaaes baglænds. Men derover glemmer man den anden Sætning, at det maa leves forlænds.
Søren Kierkegaard
Quote Image
[Belafonte]'d take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen
Miriam Makeba
But what's the alternative? What's the alternative to pumping out a unit every nine months? Pointless careerism? Pointless careerism, putting on a man tailored suit and shoulder pads and imitating all the worst behavior of men? Is this the noblest thing that women can think of?
George Carlin
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
Bertrand Russell
The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.
Miriam Makeba
I’m not going anywhere. I’m not retiring. I’m not stopping. I’m just evolving.
Taylor Swift
We are all in a cage match, mixed martial arts battle royale with agents of intolerance and braying incompetence, the malevolent equals to Imperial stormtroopers, Lex Luther, and Loki. And we could use a superhero right now.
Tom Hanks
Quote Image
So let me ask you something: how's everybody doing tonight, huh? (audience cheers) Good, well, fuck you! Just trying to make you feel at home.
George Carlin
Hannah: Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
Charlie Chaplin