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Quotes About Jane

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.
~ Jane Austen
Jane had written the direction remarkably ill.
~ Jane Austen
All badinage apart, I don't think you or I very likely to lose our gaiety or our peace of mind for any male creature breathing.
~ Jane Austen
Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to love;
~ Jane Austen
that this adventure has rather affected your admiration of her fine eyes.
~ Jane Austen
poor families in this neighbourhood. She has a large acquaintance, of course professionally
~ Jane Austen
Bennet would have been very miserable;
~ Jane Austen
I do so wonder, Miss Woodhouse, that you should not be married, or going to be married! so charming as you are!
~ Jane Austen
After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.
~ Jane Austen
Everybody of any consequence or notoriety in Bath was well know by name to Mrs Smith.
~ Jane Austen
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. "And yours," he replied with a smile,"is willfully to misunderstand them.
~ Jane Austen
maid! and that's so dreadful!
~ Jane Austen
People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking. Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
~ Jane Austen
if Anne will stay, no one so proper, so capable as Anne.
~ Jane Austen
And your defect is to hate everybody.' 'And yours,' he replied with a smile, 'is willfully to misunderstand them.
~ Jane Austen
I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
~ Jane Austen
It will be her turn soon to be teased, said Miss Lucas. I am going to open the instrument, Eliza, and you know
~ Jane Austen
My dear Lizzy, where can you have been walking to? was a question which Elizabeth received from Jane as soon as she entered their room, and from all the others when they sat down to table. She had only to say in reply, that they had wandered about, till she was beyond her own knowledge. She coloured as she spoke; but neither that, nor anything else, awakened a suspicion of the truth. The evening
~ Jane Austen
It's been a difficult few months," I admitted. "You don't really get over it. It is such a great loss," Jane said. "I guess the depth of our grief is a reminder of the depth of our love.
~ Jane Goodall
David Greybeard was eventually named one of the fifteen most influential animals that ever lived by Time magazine.
~ Jane Goodall
A cougar is a sexually active and confident woman who's a predator. Tell me you not flattered.
~ Jane Green
Fortunately Stephen was a better navigator than he had been a driver – except on those occasions when he would spot an exit at the last minute and yell at me to cross four lanes immediately.
~ Jane Hawking
Broadbent-Keeble, a respected pediatrician, came on a social call to visit Timothy
~ Jane Hawking
Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.
~ Jane Jacobs