Quotes About Time

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Teach us...... that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes.

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.

Will you tell me how long you have loved him? It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began.

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

when people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five.

Time, time will heal the wound.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost.

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want.

She began to feel that she had not yet gone through all the changes of opinion and sentiment, which the progress of time and variation of circumstances occasion in this world of changes.

A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

one day in the country is exactly like another.

These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…

If a book is well written i would find it too short.

I purposefully abstain from dates on this occasion,that very one may be liberty to fix their own,aware that the cure of unconquerable passions,and the transfer of unchanging attachments,must vary much as to time in different people.---I only entreat every body to believe that exactly at the time when it was quite natural that it should be so, and not a week earlier,Edmund did cease to care about Miss Crawford, and become anxious to marry Fanny,as Fanny herself could desire.

You have delighted us long enough.

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;—perfect, in being much too short.

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

I am really not tired, which I almost wonder at; for we must have walked at least a mile in this wood. Do not you think we have? ' 'Not half a mile,' was his sturdy answer; for he was not yet so much in love as to measure distance, or reckon time, with feminine lawlessness.