Jane Quotes - Page 2

• If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Literature, Might

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.262, Wild Jot Press

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• Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Girl

  Jane Austen, J. B. Austen Leigh (1898). “Mansfield Park”

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• Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Busy, Mansfield Park

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• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Hope, Selfish

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.7.

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• Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer — if ever I wished a righteous wish — I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Expectations

  "Jane Eyre: Enhanced with an Excerpt from The Madwoman Upstairs".

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• Angry people are not always wise.

  Jane Austen

  Life, Wise, Anger

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.472, Ageless Reads

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• Praying's not going to help. Too late for that, Jane...I gave you a chance to have it on your terms. Now we'll do this on mine

  J.R. Ward

  Too Late, Helping, Chance

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• Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands

  Bob Hope

  Moving, Hands, Culture

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• Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Insanity, Different, Remember

  Sudden Death ch. 4 (1983)

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• I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.

  Tippi Hedren

  Film, Type, Fascinated

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• We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Heart, Numbers, Events

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Lolita”, p.163, Penguin UK

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• When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.

  Peter Fonda

  Children, Father, Kids

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• My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Virginia, Role Models, Roles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Horse, Bridges, People

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• Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Writing, People

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

  Anna Quindlen

  Husband, Silly, President

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• Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative.

  Meg Cabot

  Growing Up, Book, Romance

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• For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Sports, Laughter

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 57 (1813)

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• Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

  Jane Austen

  Silly, People, Done

  1816 Emma, ch.26.

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• Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Struggle, Independent, Bird

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

  Jane Austen

  Women, Valentine's Day, Nine

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 6 (1813)

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• Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Mrs Bennet, Prejudice

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 24 (1813)

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• As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.

  Romola Garai

  Kids, Past, Lifetime

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• New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, 'Jane is now friends with Tom.' The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Connections, Stories, Might

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.126, Penguin

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• Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

  Jane Pauley

  Sound, Now And Then, Barbara

  "Jane Pauley Says Goodbye". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com.

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