Jane Austen Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Time, Loneliness, Opportunity

  Sense and Sensibility vol. 2, ch. 12 (1811)

• Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

  Jane Austen

  Time, Watches, Literature

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.301, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.

  Jane Austen

  Sweet, Time, Autumn

• Time will explain.

  Jane Austen

  Time

  Jane Austen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jane Austen (Illustrated)”, p.1638, Delphi Classics

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