Jane Austen Quotes, Wish Quotes, Might Quotes

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

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I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

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I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

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I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested.

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In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

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This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.

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There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

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All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.

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The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

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An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

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People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

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