General Chat

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

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

"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

lol......

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

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

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

"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!)

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

mad

Total Nutcase

"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