Quotes

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” Pablo Picasso

“You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.” Leonardo da Vinci

“My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.” Pablo Picasso

“You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.” Leonardo da Vinci

“I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.” Jane Austen

“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.” Jane Austen

“Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?” Jane Austen

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.” Jane Austen

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.” Jane Austen

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.” Pablo Picasso

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” Jane Austen

“Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.” Jane Austen

“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.” Jane Austen

“Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.” Pablo Picasso

“I pay very little regarding to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.” Jane Austen

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.” Jane Austen

“It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.” Jane Austen

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” Pablo Picasso

“Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.” Jane Austen

“Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.” Jane Austen

“One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.” Jane Austen

“The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.” Pablo Picasso

“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.” Jane Austen

“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.” Jane Austen

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.” Jane Austen

“Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.” Jane Austen

“But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.” Jane Austen

“The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.” Pablo Picasso

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” Jane Austen

“In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.” Jane Austen