I pay very little regard...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 AustenRead
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Quickness in action is often valued, sometimes at the expense of quality.
In this quote, Jane Austen suggests that society tends to celebrate rapidity in tasks and decisions, sometimes overlooking the quality or efficacy of those actions. The emphasis on speed over thoroughness highlights a common human tendency to prioritize immediate results rather than the substance of the work produced.
Themes
QuicknessPerformanceValueQualityAction
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used in a speech about the importance of quality over speed in entrepreneurship.
More from Jane Austen
All quotes βNobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.
Jane AustenRead
He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.
Jane AustenRead
A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
Jane AustenRead
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
Jane AustenRead
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
Jane AustenRead
Similar quotes
Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. (...) I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.
Emanuel LaskerRead
If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.
Terence TaoRead
Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls.
Pope FrancisRead
The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.
John CalvinRead
Talent is culture with insolence.
AristotleRead
Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.
Alan ArkinRead