Quotes About Jane

Aunt Cassandra used to relish rereading letters of Jane's "triumphing over the married women of her acquaintance, and rejoicing in her own freedom

'Stardust' ended up being my first film in 2007.

I'm from Mexico, and I've heard some horror stories about cast members who can't stand each other. What we have on 'Jane' is a blessing. We do table reads for every single episode one day before it starts to shoot.

I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.

One reviewer dubbed my first book, 'Getting Rid of Matthew,' 'chick noir,' and another called it 'anti chick lit,' both of which I loved.

Governor Reagan delivered perhaps the most famous one-liner. A hippie, he said, is someone who dresses like Tarzan, has hair like Jane, and smells like Cheetah.

It requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. And yours, he replied with a smile, is willfully to misunderstand them.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance..

I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

How unfortunate, considering I have decided to loathe him for eternity

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world? The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

If her case was pitiable, his was hopeless. His imprudence had made her miserable for a while; but it seemed to have deprived himself of all chance of ever being otherwise.

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

And this, cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully.

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world.

The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.

it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading...

I perfectly agree with you, sir,' was then his remark. 'You did behave very shamefully. You never wrote a truer line.

Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?

She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks.' 'I am sorry for that. At her time of life, anything of an illness destroys the bloom for ever!

I will not torment you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks.