Jane Austenish Quotes

I've been wanting to compliment you on that', I said to her, in Delsig. 'It was nicely done. Do you compose it that moment, or had you thought about it before? ~ Ann Leckie

Putting it another way: A group of fat teenagers who lost 25 percent of their body weight were in worse health than teenagers with anorexia. It ~ Rebecca Jane Weinstein

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head. ~ Orson Scott Card

Beautiful woman, I want to make love to you," he said, huskily. "God, I want you so bad right now. ~ Jane Harvey-Berrick

I did all the Chef Boyardee commercials, in America, when I was young. ~ Jane Seymour

And always I have this feeling
which may not be true at all
that I am being used as a messenger. ~ Jane Goodall

The most charming young man in the world is instantly before the imagination of us all. ~ Jane Austen

The Cloudy Vase
Past time, I threw the flowers out,
washed out the cloudy vase.
How easily the old clearness
leapt, like a practiced tiger, back inside it. ~ Jane Hirshfield

Why not? If you're not going to let me see you naked, we might as well be girlfriends."
"You're a twisted little man."
"Come on, Stretch, share with the class."
"No!" I laughed.
"Prude."
"Perv."
"Schoolmarm."
"Some other word that essentially means perv. ~ Molly Harper

Lady Russell had only to listen composedly, and wish them happy, but internally her heart revelled in angry pleasure, in pleased contempt, that the man who at twenty-three had seemed to understand somewhat of the value of an Anne Elliot, should, eight years afterwards, be charmed by a Louisa Musgrove. ~ Jane Austen

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week. ~ Jane Hamilton

Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air ... I think it's a sort of lark or something. Our tradition has it that they sing with the voices of lost lovers. If the stars are smiling on them, you will hear its mate call back in a moment. ~ Jane Johnson

Frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope. ~ Jane Wagner

Feelings come in packs, D. Let one loose and they all want to run together. ~ Jane Seville

Make haste Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that. ~ Shannon Hale

I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound! ~ Jane Siberry

I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy? ~ Jane Austen

As to Miss Bennet, he could not conceive an angel more beautiful. ~ Jane Austen

One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy. ~ Jane Birkin

Seventh Heaven, I've heard of,' she admitted, 'though not in connection with astronomy. ~ Jane Toombs

I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon. ~ Charlotte Bronte

When money is once parted with, it can never return. ~ Jane Austen

I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have. ~ Jane Pauley

When a young man, be who he will, comes and makes love to a pretty girl, and promises marriage, he has no business to fly off from his word only because he grows poor, and a richer girl is ready to have him. Why don't he, in such a case, sell his horses, let his house, turn off his servants, and make a thorough reform at once? ~ Jane Austen

Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses. ~ Jane Velez-Mitchell

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again. ~ Jane Austen

D drew back and took Jack's face in his hands. "I'll find you. You hear me?" Jack nodded, a lump rising in his throat. "I'll find you. ~ Jane Seville

Strong features, firm, grim mouth, - all energy, decision, will, - were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me ~ Charlotte Bronte

Besides, when did you become an expert on men, miss hide-herself-away-in-the-study? ~ Sarah Jane Avory

But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise. ~ Jane Austen

As an actor, you realize that your whole life is about arrivals and departures. You're always meeting people, you get really close, and then you all have to leave. ~ Jane Levy

The human personality has no limitations except those which it accepts. ~ Jane Roberts

I spent most of my time floating on an inflatable raft in the pristine Mediterranean waters, my big belly curving toward the sun, reading (incongruously) The Autobiography of Malcolm X. It rocked me to my core. Malcolm's story opened a window onto a reality I had ignored. But the greatest revelation the book brought me was the possibility of profound human transformation. I was spellbound by his journey from the doped-up, numbers-running, woman-beating, street-hustling, pimping Malcolm Little to a proud, clean, literate, Muslim Malcolm X who taught that all white people were the Devil incarnate - to his final, spiritual transformation in Mecca. There he met white people from all over the world who received him as a brother, and he realized that "white," as he had been using the word, didn't mean skin color as much as it meant attitudes and actions some whites held toward non-whites - but that not all whites were racist. At the time of his murder, he was anything but the hatemonger portrayed in the American press. Somehow, through the horrors that had been his life, he had become a spiritual leader. How had this been possible? ~ Jane Fonda

She is in full delirium. But delirium is the antithesis of death; it is the body's
struggle to survive. ("Jane Brown's Body") ~ Cornell Woolrich

Demanding and bargaining for your wants and desires may or may not work. But living in a place of trust and openhearted availability for what life shows you is a far more harmonious and whole-full life. ~ Jane Monica-Jones

My favorite part of speaking at events has never been the speaking, but the reading of my books. ~ Jane Green

It's the worst yet. I'm in TEFL City.'

'TEFL City' because we called those times 'TEFL-pondering mornings', when your only option felt like emigration and teaching. ~ Emma Jane Unsworth

Depend upon it, you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere - and those evil–minded observers, dearest Mary, who make much of a little, are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves. ~ Jane Austen

Poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development. ~ Jane Jacobs

By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like. ~ Jane Austen

The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripted plays, where reading a medical report requires a security clearance, and practice fields are patrolled like Guantanamo Bay. ~ Jane Leavy

Motor-scooter riders with big beards and girl friends who bounce on the back of the scooters and wear their hair long in front of their faces as well as behind, drunks who follow the advice of the Hat Council and are always turned out in hats, but not hats the Council would approve. Mr. Lacey, the locksmith,, shups up his shop for a while and goes to exchange time of day with Mr. Slube at the cigar store. Mr. Koochagian, the tailor, waters luxuriant jungle of plants in his window, gives them a critical look from the outside, accepts compliments on them from two passers-by, fingers the leaves on the plane tree in front of our house with a thoughtful gardener's appraisal, and crosses the street for a bite at the Ideal where he can keep an eye on customers and wigwag across the message that he is coming. The baby carriages come out, and clusters of everyone from toddlers with dolls to teenagers with homework gather at the stoops.

When I get home from work, the ballet is reaching its cresendo. This is the time roller skates and stilts and tricycles and games in the lee of the stoop with bottletops and plastic cowboys, this is the time of bundles and packages, zigzagging from the drug store to the fruit stand and back over to the butcher's; this is the time when teenagers, all dressed up, are pausing to ask if their slips shows or their collars look right; this is the time when beautiful girls get out of MG's; this is the time when the fire engines go through; this is t ~ Jane Jacobs

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. ~ Jane Porter

One day I waited for her to go to work, and the instant I was alone with Perla, I snapped.

"My fucking life is ruled by more protocols than a Jane Austen character!"

It might have been the nerdiest meltdown in history. ~ Romina Garber

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary. ~ Augusta Jane Evans