#han

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. ↗

— Jane Austen

#boast #carelessness #deceitful #humility #indirect

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. ↗

— Jane Austen

#better #cases #feels #had #more

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. ↗

— Jane Austen

#handsomer #happens #she #sometimes #ten

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. ↗

— Jane Austen

#enhanced #foolish #inconvenience #often #pleasure

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. ↗

— Jane Austen

#almost #beauty #been #cradle #delight

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#boring #going #more #nothing #old

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#because #being #brave #chance #dangerous

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#duty #emotional #music #rather #regulated

We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody. ↗

— David Axelrod

#arriving #ballots #being #counted #custody

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#hope #life #change