Elizabeth Aston Quotes

• What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Love, Marriage, Couple

  Elizabeth Aston (2007). “The Second Mrs. Darcy: A Novel”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Different, Ornaments, May

  Elizabeth Aston (2003). “Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel”, Touchstone

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• Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Nature, Heaven, Inspire

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Love, Second Chance, Perfect

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Business, Taken, Artist

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• People make one happy, not houses.

  Elizabeth Aston

  People, House

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Morning, Dark, Imagination

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• We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Income, Needs, Tables

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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• Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Mind, Trouble, Concern

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Memories, Thinking, Remember

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Problem, Easy, Enough

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Flower, Men, Differences

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• The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Secret, Finding Yourself, Criticism

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• The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Lying, Spurs, Details

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Intelligent, Thinking, Bird

  Elizabeth Aston (2007). “The Second Mrs. Darcy: A Novel”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Men, Scared

  Elizabeth Aston (2007). “The Second Mrs. Darcy: A Novel”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Wish, Might, Next

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Mean, Journey, Escaping

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Office, Lawyer

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• People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Thinking, People, House

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Men, Religion, Clergymen

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• It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Want, This Life, What You Want

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Men, Pockets, Depth

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Appreciation, Sadness, Different

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• How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Sex, Moving, Men

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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