Coco > Coco's Quotes

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green

“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.”
― Jane Austen

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“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.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Let us have the luxury of silence.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Fanny! You are killing me!"
"No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what is right.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“I have no talent for certainty.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“I understand Crawford paid you a visit?"
"Yes."
"And was he attentive?"
"Yes, very."
"And has your heart changed towards him?"
"Yes. Several times. I have - I find that I - I find that-"
"Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.... I missed you."
"And I you.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“We do not look in great cities for our best morality.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“I can never be important to any one.'
'What is to prevent you?'
'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“None but a woman can teach the science of herself.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Mrs. Norris hitched a breath and went on again.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone