Meryton Quotes & Sayings

Winners choose to make the smartest sacrifice. — Kevin Abdulrahman

Mr. Bingley and Jane remained at Netherfield only a twelvemonth. So near a vicinity to her mother and Meryton — Jane Austen

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. — Lorraine Hansberry

I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed. — Ivo Andric

I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it. — Meryl Streep

The manner in which they spoke of the Meryton assembly was sufficiently characteristic. Bingley had never met — Jane Austen

[...]speak for and from our most intimate knowledge, yet simultaneously extend the boundaries around ourselves to include the "outsider," to include more than we have been, more than we thought we could imagine. — Kirsten Backstrom

In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton. The attention of the younger ones was then no longer to be gained by him. Their eyes were immediately wandering up in the street in quest of the officers, and nothing less than a very smart bonnet indeed, or a really new muslin in a shop window, could recall them. — Jane Austen

The trap that can be ignored is no trap. — Charlie Jane Anders

COUNT ON ONLY 1 PERSON ..THE PERSON WHO YOU KNOW 100% WILL BE THERE WITH YOU WHEN YOU DRAW YOUR LAST BREATH OF LIFE ... THAT PERSON YOU MUST COUNT ON IS YOU! — Stuart J. Scesney

Since the early bird catches the worm, it's a good idea to begin your day as soon as you can
unless, of course, you happen to be a worm. — Ed Bliss

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so. — Jock Sturges

I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody. — Rod Steiger

If I endeavor to undeceive people as to the rest of his conduct, who will believe me? The general prejudice against Mr. Darcy is so violent that it would be the death of half the good people in Meryton, to attempt to place him in an amiable light.
-Chapter 7 — Jane Austen

William thus began: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society." "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Every savage can dance." Sir William only smiled. "Your friend performs delightfully," he continued after a pause, on seeing Bingley join the group; "and I doubt not that you are an adept in the science yourself, Mr. Darcy." "You saw me dance at Meryton, — Jane Austen

She paused before the fallen rider. He stared up at her from within a grimacing, battle stained face. Hatred and fear battled for supremacy in his eyes. Sasha met his gaze directly with a stare of utter contempt.
'Where are your gods now?' she said. — Joel Shepherd

Anger is the fire of the soul, love is the language of the heart ... — Stephen Richards

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. — Tacitus

Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country. — Jane Austen

People say you can tell you're in love with someone when you find it impossible to get that person out of your mind. But it was my eyes that were the first to know. — Satosumi Takaguchi