Jilted Quotes

• To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Break Up, Pride

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• I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.

  Frank Sinatra

  Heart, Thinking, Painful Experiences

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• Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.

  Thomas Campbell

  Wooing

  'The Jilted Nymph' (1843)

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• Heiresses are never jilted.

  George Meredith

  Marriage, Heiress

  George Meredith (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Meredith (Illustrated)”, p.2006, Delphi Classics

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• Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

  Samuel Lover

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  William Bayle Bernard, Samuel Lover (1874). “The Life of Samuel Lover, R. H. A.: Artistic, Literary, and Musical, with Selections from His Unpublished Papers and Correspondence”, p.113

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• Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hands, Play, Perfect

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.193

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• Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.

  Rick Riordan

  Army, Boys, Thinking

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• I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don’t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.

  Alex Garland

  Mistake, Writing, Holiday

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• Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.

  Kirsten Olson

  Learning, Want, Students

  Kirsten Olson (2015). “Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture”, p.67, Teachers College Press

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• I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

  Alex Garland

  Mistake, Writing, Diaries

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.149, Penguin

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• When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess its like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.

  Tom Freston

  Girlfriend, Moving, Loss

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