Jane Quotes

Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it.

I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express." - Jane Eyre

He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish from his lips.

Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss me before you go--embrace me, Jane.

I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?

Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.

I would love to do a sweeping romantic period drama, like Jane Eyre. That would be my dream. It's always been my dream, as far as acting.

I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous.

What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

It is not like every episode [of "Mary and Jane"] people are sitting around getting high.

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-

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.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

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.

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

Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.

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

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.

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

I don't think it feels like a burden. We did not really think of it ["Mary and Jane"] that way. I think it is certainly how we branded. The thing it does is enables us to be a little bit surreal.

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

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

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

There is an episode [in "Mary and Jane"] where there is not a lot of pot smoking, but there is a giant wall of weed in their apartment.

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

I always loved the style of Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin and Marilyn Monroe.

Praying's not going to help. Too late for that, Jane...I gave you a chance to have it on your terms. Now we'll do this on mine

Jane: Focus is important. V: Only if you're a microscope.

All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

Jane-Sweetie, we've talked about your weight-" my mother began. I'm only eight years old," I said. "How about I promise to be anorexic later?

But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works

I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her.

Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson

How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

Finally, he knew the kind of loving that made two one and understood Jane was his world. His ocean, his country, his sun, his rain, his very heart.