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"You may charge me with murder — or want of sense -
(we are all of us weak at times):
But the slightest approach to a false pretence
was never among my crimes!"


(with apologies to Sue for hasty removal before she could reply lol)

What quotation (etc) do you feel sums YOU up?

xx

Total Nutcase

mad

Thanks Rose

(With thanks to multi-tabs)

Not so much a quotation, but here's me :

"I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done."

"My fingers," said Elizabeth, "do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my
own fault -- because I would not take the trouble of
practising. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution."

Darcy smiled, and said, "You are perfectly right. You have employed your time much better. No one admitted to the privilege of hearing you, can think any thing wanting. We neither of us perform to strangers."

(I'm D'Arcy in this case, by the way!)

Is Jane Austen not a wonderful capturer of human kind?

Lol Sue

"Marriage may have many pains but celibacy has no pleasures" - can't remember who said that.

(not that I am actually married to the old boy but that one always makes me think about why I'm still with him after all these years!)

I love 'Pride and Prejudice' Sue....lol...

Mr Darcy...and Mr Rochester (Jane Eyre) .........lol ...enough said! xx

"I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry." - Rita Rudner

lol......

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you"

Elbert Hubbard

"THe proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right"

Mark Twain


"The aim of education should be to convert the mind into a living fountain , and not a reservoir"

John M mason

Hi Rose

Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters and Lorna Doone - wonderful!

My (well thumbed) copy of Pride and Prejudice has a foreword that talks about the world of Austen -

"where you MAY have money, but you MUST have manners" Says it all?

Lol Sue

Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for. - Mae West

And, Jill, your quotation was Samuel Johnson

Lol Sue

Samuel Johnson - yes - well done!

You're welcome Jill.

But I'm not a literature buff - just someone with access to the web!

Lol Sue

And two quotes.....'cos I can lol...

"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no control over.”

“Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love him, it's when he loves another girl but you still smile and say I'm happy for you, when all you really do is cry.”

"Have you ever been in love?

Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armour, so that nothing can hurt you,

then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...

You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.

It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain."

OMG Sue.....are you trying to cheer me up? lol....pass the bread knife.......lol

xx

Sorry Rose!

(puts Cohen albums away - not quite the time to be quoting his lyrics, then!)

Cheerful quotes follow.........

Lol Sue

"the only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It's never of any good to oneself." Oscar Wilde.

This one's for you Rose, cos you've got the butter knife:

"I've got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches - it's either very new cheese or very old meat.”

Oscar in 'The Odd Couple'

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Oscar Wilde

lol
xx