Quotes About Patience

A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.

You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

Time did not compose her.

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

If he does not come to me, then ,' said she, 'I shall give him up for ever.

You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience — or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

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

Time, time will heal the wound.

There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: 'Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.

Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.

We women love longest even when all hope is gone.

what must be at last had better be soon.

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

Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.

Lady Middleton resigned herself... Contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject, five or six times every day.

When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before; nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

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

I have observed, Mrs Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

You have delighted us long enough.

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

keep your breath to cool your porridge

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.