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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to of total A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.
Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters, 2003Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.
Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters, 2003 People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.
Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters, 2003One's life is not as fixed as one believes. Surprises may lie in store for you, the unexpected often tends to happen, sometimes bringing in its train the most delightful change in one's life or circumstances.
Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008The 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, The Darcy Connection, 2008 Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet 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, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005 Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.
Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005How 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, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005 It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.
Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005 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 upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.
Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005 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, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.
Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005 There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.
Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005You 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, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.
Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007 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, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007 When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.
Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007You 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, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007Charge 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, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006 Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.
Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006It 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, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006 It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.
Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006Love has no place in a lawyer's office.
Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006The 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, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006We 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, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
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