"Do you not want to know who..." - Quote by Jane Austen
Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
More by Jane Austen
“Is not poetry the food of love?”
“He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart.”
“Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.”
More on Curiosity
“If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.”
“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
“In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.”
More on Impatience
“In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.”
“Poor Mr. Pickwick! ... If he played a wrong card, Miss Bolo looked a small armoury of daggers; if he stopped to consider which was the right one, Lady Snuphanuph would throw herself back in her chair, and smile with a mingled glance of impatience and pity to Mrs. Colonel Wugsby, at which Mrs. Colonel Wugsby would shrug up her shoulders, and cough, as much as to say she wondered whether he ever would begin.”
“It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.”