Margaret Sullivan > Margaret's Quotes

“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone for ever.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“That punishment, the public punishment of disgrace, should in a just measure attend his share of the offence is, we know, not one of the barriers which society gives to virtue.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Upon Mrs Scorton's reappearance, she found herself confronted, not by the fool of his family, but by the Honourable Frederick Standen, a Pink of the Pinks, who knew to a nicety how to blend courtesy with hauteur, and who informed her, with exquisite politeness, that he rather fancied his cousin was tired, and would like to be taken home. One of the uninvited guests, entering the box in Eliza's wake, ventured on a warm sally, found himself being inspected from head to foot through a quizzing-glass, and stammered an apology.”
― Georgette Heyer, Cotillion

“What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, and not Jack, that's all.”
― Georgette Heyer, Cotillion

“Take care. If you do not speak – I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way. Send me away at once, if I must go; – Margaret! –”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“To a good man, yes, one who knows her in all her moods, who can laugh at her follies and rejoice in her virtues; who will not allow her to give in to her worst instincts; one who knows her, and who, knowing her, will still love her, and love her as she should be loved.”
― Amanda Grange, Mr. Knightley's Diary

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“That innovator is the aforementioned Hugh Thomson, who might be called the Colin Firth of Austen-inspired book illustration." (P. 52)”
― Devoney Looser, The Making of Jane Austen

“The primary reason diseases tend to run in families may be that diets tend to run in families.”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

“When your smoking habit erases the antioxidant-boosting effects of eight hundred cups of kale, you know it's time to quit.”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

“In life, loss was the engine that set Wilder's fiction in motion. Exile propelled the powerful emotional current of the Little House books, an intensely felt nostalgia for people and places lost to her. That emotion was absent in "Free Land," relegating it to homesteading soap opera. Its loosely linked anecdotes were joined not by familial love but by Lane's, and the Post's, ideology.”
― Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Trying to get ahold of Davis later on, i asked Jonathan, "Who would have Lanny Davis's number?" He replied, I don't know, Pol Pot?”
― Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators