Quotes About Consequence

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me.

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.

what must be at last had better be soon.

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

consequence has its tax;...

Mi afecto y mis anhelos no han variado; pero una palabra suya me hará callar para siempre Mr. Darcy

whether I ought not to punish him by dismissing him at once after this reconciliation, or by marrying and teazing him for ever.

She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady Bertram, but Mrs. Norris would have been a more respectable mother of nine children on a small income.

How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and rued it all the rest of his life!

by allowance and loving with personal love. This distinction applies to books as well as to men and women; and in the case of the not very numerous authors who are the objects of the personal affection, it brings a curious consequence with it. There

Everybody of any consequence or notoriety in Bath was well know by name to Mrs Smith.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if youdo.

The world is blinded by his fortune and consequence, or frightened by his high and imposing manners, and sees him only as he chooses to be seen.

If you are in too great a hurry, you will certainly live to repent it.

But it's the way we have used the intellect that has made the mess, not the intellect per se.

No puede pasar un día sin una repercusión tuya en el mundo que te rodea. Tus acciones marcan una diferencia y tú decides que tipo de diferencia quieres marcar.

Once we have accepted the story, we cannot escape the story's fate.

Shakespeare. "To do a great right, do a little wrong.

You're out of beer." "I had to choose between food and the shoes." "You made the right choice.

Death now or death later, that was the real question.