Jane Quotes

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

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

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

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.

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is.

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.

Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the words, I love you, Jane.

Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.

Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.

There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these.

Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.

To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.

Part of being a sentient human is the ability to anticipate others' mental states - to say "Fred's going to hate this but Jane would love it."

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

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

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

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

I used the name Jane Roe because I didnt want my personal name to be involved in it.

Every time I finish a book, it's my favorite. I have a lot of favorites. I did just finish Jane Eyre and it was fabulous. I didn't want it to end.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

I prefer to be left alone with my books.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964

I've done a lot of things for a very young audience so far, such as The Sarah Jane Adventures. I'm tiny and petite and I look very young, so I tend to attract those kinds of roles.

There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.

There are a couple of things that we did not get to do last season [of Mary and Jane]. There was one that we had written and then we had to excise it and still have not gone back to it.

Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart- kiss me, dear, just once before I lose my dream forever." -Jane-

The original pilot script [ of "Mary and Jane"], we literally just wrote for fun. It was, let's just do this.

I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements.

It is just fun to play with [in "Mary and Jane"]. I think our sense of humor tends to go that way.

I don't think we had a hard time with ["Mary and Jane"]. It is just, it was the constant management of it.

We ["Mary and Jane"] did not want to be a weed show, like it is a bunch of people sitting around smoking.

We did want it ["Mary and Jane"] to feel a little different and have some surreal weird touches, which we try to do every episode. That is what we took advantage of.

I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.