Desirable Quotes - Page 22

• The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.

  William Godwin

  Boys, Men, Independence

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• It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.

  Jane Austen

  Acceptance, Mr Collins, Hands

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.96

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• Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Events, Hardship, Disease

  Phyllis Chesler (1973). “Women & madness”

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