Elizabeth Bennett quotes

“I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.”
-- Elizabeth Bennett

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“We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before.”
-- Elizabeth Bennett

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“Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.”
-- Elizabeth Bennett

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“One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.”
-- Elizabeth Bennett

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“The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

“Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.”

“The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.”

“A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.”

Source : "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book IV, Chapter 7, 1735.

“The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.”

“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)

“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”

“It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.”

“This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.”

“Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.”

Source : "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here", 1969.