Jane AustenIf a book is well written, I always find it too short.
About This Quote
This quote is taken from the book, “How to Get Rich.” This book is about how to become rich, but it’s not written well. It’s not well-written. People who do not have much money should read this book, because they could learn a lot from this book.
Source: Sense And Sensibility
Some Similar Quotes
- A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
- The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books
- It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and...
- I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."" Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes,...
- Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
More Quotes By Jane Austen
- There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
- In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
- The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
- I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.