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STEPHEN R. COVEY I do not know what to say, how to tempt you. If you had a price, I would pay it. If you desired part...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
DODIE SMITH I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
MAGGIE GRACE In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama
HARPER LEE I remember when I was trying to do 'Metropolitan,' in breaks I would read a page of two of J...
WHIT STILLMAN I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
J. K. ROWLING I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses...
EDWARD BOND When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last word...
DIANA GABALDON At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and wi...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus spari...
CATHLEEN SCHINE People who say Jane or talk about Janeites revolt me. The sort that can walk with kings and not lose...
ANGELA THIRKELL Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Sai...
TRYON EDWARDS A man said to a Dervish: “Why do I not see you more often?” The Dervish replied, “Because the ...
ROBERT GREENE I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets t...
VAL MCDERMID I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
EMINEM You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you wo...
GREG LAKE And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of al...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say ...
BIBLE I'm the ayatollah of the Jane Austen fan base! I want to lead the fan base, not be attacked and ...
WHIT STILLMAN there is [...]
a last even of last times of saying
if you do not love me I shall not be lo...
SAMUEL BECKETT Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for ...
ANNA HELD To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession o...
BRUCE FEIRSTEIN I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. WILSON If you do not apologize to Lady Honoria,” Marcus said, his voice so mild as to be terrifying, “I...
JULIA QUINN A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when som...
GEORGE SAND You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose t...
STEPHEN KING My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life. I don't have the courage to read it,...
KATHERINE REAY [Just before the meeting got started, Andy Grove, the gruff chairman of Intel's board at the time, p...
DAVID POTTRUCK I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen i...
ANNE STEVENSON Let's make a game of it, shall we?" she said. "Whoever kills the most, wins."
"I will kill twe...
STEVE HOCKENSMITH What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell ...
PHILIP PULLMAN If I tried to make money for a Jane Austen movie, I'd get laughed out of the office.
GEORGE A. ROMERO I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I w...
NAOMI NOVIK I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionat...
FRANCES O'CONNOR I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will atte...
VAL MCDERMID The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
EZRA POUND We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treas...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he ha...
C.S. LEWIS I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. T...
TOM HIDDLESTON I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.
SUSANNA CLARKE For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou...
BIBLE You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living....
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY (Frances has gotten out of bed again and come to her parents' room...)
'How can the wind have a...
RUSSELL HOBAN Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”
“Not...
MARY-JEAN HARRIS I speak now, Harry Potter, directly to you. You have permitted your friends to die for you rather th...
J.K. ROWLING And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this b...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT To middle-class Americans who have paid a great deal for the last 12 years and from whom I ask a con...
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MERYN G. CALLANDER You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE You say I am repeating
Something I have said before. I shall say it again.
Shall I say it...
T.S. ELIOT Jane Jameson."
He grinned. "Like the porn star."
I gaped at him. "What? No, Jane Ja...
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A. N. WILSON I have said it a thousand times before, and now I say it the third and the last time.
NORWEGIAN PRIME MINISTER KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? / And Jesus said un...
BIBLE I love you, Eliza,” I said.
She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t li...
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LESLEY STAHL Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
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A. A. MILNE Behind every great hatred is a love story. For I am a man who has known and tasted love. I say “a ...
JUSTIN CRONIN But you smiled at me and said consolingly, "People come back again."
"Yes" I said, "they come b...
STEFAN ZWEIG say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you
VOLTAIRE I hate a macho sort who doesn't cry. They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they? One guy even said ...
EMMA BUNTON You should not be discouraged; one doe not die of a cold," the priest said to the bishop. The old ma...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
VOLTAIRE They are the two most consistent penalty kick takers we have. But normally if (a player) is involved...
GUY VIRGILIO You don't have to do this."
"I think I do," Julian said. "I remember making a vow to that affec...
CASSANDRA CLARE As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, ...
CLARENCE DARROW As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, th...
CLARENCE DARROW Oh, Caddy," said Saffron miserably.
"I know. It's awful. But I'm going. We all should."
"I...
HILARY MCKAY And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a...
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WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
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JANE AUSTEN I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can....
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A.J. BURNETT Every time I do something bad or mess up, he's the first one to come over here. He'll say, 'Man, I d...
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RAY DAVIES The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: ...
FRANCESCO PETRARCH And He will judge and will forgive all, the good and the evil, the wise and the meek . . . And when ...
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JOHN GREEN To have world peace, the inhabitants on that world need to be peaceful. Now i can't speak for everyo...
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Every savage can dance.
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JANE AUSTEN If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
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JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise.
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JANE AUSTEN Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
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JANE AUSTEN There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...
JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...
JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
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JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...
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JANE AUSTEN ....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ...
JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p...
JANE AUSTEN Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor...
JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f...
JANE AUSTEN I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
JANE AUSTEN If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.
JANE AUSTEN I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
JANE AUSTEN I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif...
JANE AUSTEN Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
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JANE AUSTEN In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to te...
JANE AUSTEN There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop...
JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai...
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JANE AUSTEN ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
JANE AUSTEN Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTEN A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
JANE AUSTEN Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
JANE AUSTEN From politics it was an easy step to silence.
JANE AUSTEN There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
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JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab...
JANE AUSTEN One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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JANE AUSTEN One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth...
JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
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JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,...
JANE AUSTEN Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara...
JANE AUSTEN Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
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JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
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JANE AUSTEN Well! Evil to some is always good to others.
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JANE AUSTEN I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It...
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JANE AUSTEN One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at...
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JANE AUSTEN Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.
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JANE AUSTEN An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
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JANE AUSTEN The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
JANE AUSTEN Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
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It is something to think of
JANE AUSTEN My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
JANE AUSTEN Till this moment I never knew myself.
JANE AUSTEN He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.
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JANE AUSTEN I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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JANE AUSTEN Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.
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JANE AUSTEN There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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JANE AUSTEN Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the m...
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JANE AUSTEN What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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JANE AUSTEN There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
JANE AUSTEN Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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JANE AUSTEN She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she wa...
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JANE AUSTEN There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got al...
JANE AUSTEN Beware how you give your heart.
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JANE AUSTEN Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affect...
JANE AUSTEN You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth...
JANE AUSTEN Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas...
JANE AUSTEN Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say...
JANE AUSTEN The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...
JANE AUSTEN We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
JANE AUSTEN It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these...
JANE AUSTEN How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
JANE AUSTEN Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
JANE AUSTEN General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
JANE AUSTEN Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums...
JANE AUSTEN Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
JANE AUSTEN It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
JANE AUSTEN I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
JANE AUSTEN My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ...
JANE AUSTEN One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it
JANE AUSTEN But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ...
JANE AUSTEN Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu bu...
JANE AUSTEN It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno...
JANE AUSTEN You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.
JANE AUSTEN It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in...
JANE AUSTEN My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so m...
JANE AUSTEN Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
JANE AUSTEN They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
JANE AUSTEN She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ...
JANE AUSTEN She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ...
JANE AUSTEN Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ...
JANE AUSTEN I am excessively diverted.
JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn...
JANE AUSTEN Every thing nourishes what is strong already.
JANE AUSTEN It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.
JANE AUSTEN