Quotes on history

“The sooner every party breaks up, the better.”

Topics: better, breaks, every

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

Topics: cannot, despotism, history

“One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.”

Topics: always, another, best

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”

Topics: alive, history, laugh

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”

Topics: although, history, jane

“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.”

Topics: highly, history, marriage

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”

Topics: austen, history, jane

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

Topics: chance, entirely, happiness

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

Topics: alone, determined, disposition

“We do not look in great cities for our best morality.”

Thomas Jefferson

Topics: best, cities, great

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