Quote by Jane Austen
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;– it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. – Jane Austen

Other quotes by Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. – Jane Austen

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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. – Jane Austen

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. – Jane Austen

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The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells — and he smelled real nice. – Sandra Bullock

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future –and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. – Albert Camus

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP. – Julie Burchill

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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him. – Halle Berry

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