Jane Quotes

289 quotes by 207 authors

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum… — Jennifer Ellison
Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane… — George Will
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. — Anne Stevenson
The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane… — Barbara Ehrenreich
There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer. — Leslie Caron
I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture. — Laura Marling
I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest. — Norma McCorvey
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… — Frances O'Connor
When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was… — Karrine Steffans
It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda. — Terry Southern
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro. — Amy Waldman
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around… — Terry Eagleton
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being… — Edward Bond
I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scrubs,' nor my Jane character on 'Happy Endings,' but I'm a… — Eliza Coupe
I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had… — Eric Avery
I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I… — Jenny Agutter
I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless. — Emma Donoghue
I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl. — Maggie Grace
I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for? — Alanis Morissette
Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness. — Seth Grahame-Smith

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