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Quotes About Warmth

Really, Mr. Collins,' cried Elizabeth with some warmth, 'you puzzle me exceedingly. If what I have hitherto said can appear to you in the form of encouragement, I know not how to express my refusal in such a way as to convince you of its being one.
~ Jane Austen
He was in love, very much in love; and it was a love which, operating on an active, sanguine spirit, of more warmth than delicacy, made her affection appear of greater consequence, because it was witheld, and determined him to have the glory, as well as the felicity of forcing her to love him.
~ Jane Austen
Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.
~ Jane Austen
At Christmas every body invites their friends and thinks little of even the worst weather.
~ Jane Austen
Having never fancied herself in love before, her regard had all the warmth of first attachment, and from her age and disposition, greater steadiness than first attachments often boast; and so fervently did she value his remembrance, and prefer him to every other man, that all her good sense, and all her attention to the feelings of her friends, were requisite to check the indulgence of those regrets, which must have been injurious to her own health and their tranquility.
~ Jane Austen
It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.
~ Jane Austen
The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do.
~ Jane Austen
The progress of the friendship between Catherine and Isabella was quick as its beginning had been warm...and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together.
~ Jane Austen
I love when I'm outside, feeling the sun on my skin. The grass, and the cats on the porch, and myself, all thirsting after the warmth, and finding it, make me know that there's something mighty about our planet and the whole works out there in the universe.
~ Jane Hamilton
Morocco: to its warmth and generosity, its exoticism, and its crumbling, pungent, ever-present history.
~ Jane Johnson
Some days they would talk all morning about exactly how warm Heaven might be. It could not be warm enough so that souls went naked, or could it? If souls went naked, then why all the weaving, and if there was no weaving then how did souls occupy themselves?
~ Jane Smiley
Laura's gossip was redeemed by its lack of spite. She was warmly objective about every event, taking endless delight in action and complexity, as if she had been bed-ridden in a small windowless room for years and was just now discovering the dramatic possibilities of daily life. She sang Alice through the day.
~ Jane Smiley
The priestess gave the line of girls a smile, but there was no warmth in that smile, only a formal lifting of the lips.
~ Jane Yolen
You're a marshmallow. Soft and sweet and when you get heated up you go all gooey and delicious.-
~ Janet Evanovich
Pete- What does a woman want out of marriage? Louisa- Undying devotion and a warm place to put her cold feet when she gets into bed at night.
~ Janet Evanovich
He smiled when he saw me . . . and it was the nice smile that included his eyes.
~ Janet Evanovich
Babe," Ranger said, wrapping his arms around me, gathering me close to him.
~ Janet Evanovich
sharing my cozy home with the mice.
~ Janette Oke
I spend a lot of time in our kitchen. I find it the cosiest, friendliest place in the house. It's not something my American upbringing prepared me for, but now that I live in England, it's become very important to me.
~ Linda McCartney
If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too
~ John Fante
If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.
~ Jane Campion
There's nothing worse than a sterile house.
~ John Torode
I've never met a stranger.
~ Wally Funk