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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• An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

  Jane Austen

  Power, Done, Literature

  Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.305, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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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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• I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  A. N. Wilson

  Dining, Tables, Austen

  "AN Wilson: 'Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow'". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

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• If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a phenomenon, but right now, I'm working with these wonderful women on 'Hot in Cleveland,' and Valerie Bertinelli, and Wendy Malick and Jane Leeves are like, it's like the buddy-ship we had on 'Golden Girls' and 'Mary Tyler Moore.'

  Betty White

  Girl, Blessing, Two

  "The white hot Betty White". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2012.

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• How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million?

  Johnny Weissmuller

  Hiking, Guy, Tree

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

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• Totally whatever we want to put in there. Then it was really "Now we are going to make it. We really need to find a consistent tone."I think the pilot ["Mary and Jane"] actually got it. It was more about the other episodes making sure everything else.

  Harry Elfont

  Thinking, Tone, Needs

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I love Jane [Krakowski]. Jane's been a dear friend for maybe a dozen years. We've worked together on many shows and concerts and readings. We did 'Damn Yankees' together and then we did 'Xanadu.' Jane did all the workshops of 'Xanadu' before it moved to Broadway. She's hysterical and our voices blended. We had a similar sensibility.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Reading, Years, Voice

  "Renaissance man". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

  Mark Twain

  Hate, Book, Writing

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

  Tippi Hedren

  Film, Type, Fascinated

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