Home » Quote » Jane Austen » „[N]obody minds having what is too good for them.“ „[N]obody minds having what is too good for them.“ — Jane Austen Related quotes „She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing…“ — Jane Austen „Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.“ — Ambrose Bierce „Amnesty, n. The state’s magnaminity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.“ — Ambrose Bierce „Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.“ — Ambrose Bierce