Jane Quotes - Page 11

• No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.

  Jane Seymour

  War, Names, Dancing

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• I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

  J. K. Rowling

  Would Be, Fame, Famous Writers

  "'Harry is a lot, lot, lot angrier in this book'". Interview with Jeremy Paxman, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 20, 2003.

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• Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

  J. K. Rowling

  Literature, Pinnacle, Austen

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• Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Past, Magic, Lines

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• When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Boys, Men, Thinking

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• I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

  Irene Dunne

  Swearing

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• The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

  Bette Davis

  Baby, Art, Entertainment

  Quoted in Doug McClelland Star Speak (1987).

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• I always loved the style of Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin and Marilyn Monroe.

  Helena Christensen

  Style

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

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• Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Mind, Mansfield Park

  Jane Austen (1857). “Mansfield park”, p.287

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• It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Marriage, Women

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.52

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• Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Optimistic, Sadness

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 48

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• Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

  Jane Austen

  Friendship, Inspiring, Money

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• Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Reality, Men

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• To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

  Jane Austen

  Half, Literature, States

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.438

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• Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fashion, Government, All Time

  Jasper Fforde (2013). “The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots”, p.195, Hachette UK

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• galatea was a serious girl. she was pale and looked like tears all over. big ed passed his hand through his hair and said hello. she looked at him steadily. "where have you been? why did you do this to me?" and she gave dean a dirty look; she knew the score. dean paid absolutely no attention; what he wanted now was food; he asked jane if there was anything. the confusion began right there.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Dirty, Hair

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• Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying." "If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.

  Philippa Gregory

  Kings, Prayer, Eye

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.582, Simon and Schuster

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• How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

  Dodie Smith

  Wish, Novel, Austen

  Dodie Smith (2011). “I Capture The Castle”, p.30, Random House

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• Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Reading, Eye, Appreciate

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• Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss me before you go--embrace me, Jane.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Dream, Kissing, Arms

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.353, Penguin

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• I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.

  E. M. Forster

  Air, Expression, Names

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• And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

  Jane Austen

  Sick, Perfection, Wicked

  Letter to Fanny Knight, 23 March 1817, in R. W. Chapman (ed.) 'Jane Austen's Letters' (1952)

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• I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, People, Justice

  Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.243, BookBaby

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• I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre

  Charlotte Bronte

  Thinking, Forever, Breathe

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Writing, Young Friends

  "Of magic and single motherhood". Interview with Margaret Weir, www.salon.com. March 14, 1999.

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