Quotes of: Jane-austen Keyword

My parents divorced after 25 years of marriage.

Jonathan Evison

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

Iain Banks

I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.

The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen

It was one thing to stay in one place If you were happy and fulfilled- that was simply living the good life. But what if you weren't fulfilled?

The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen

Our first point of discussion is the hunt. (...) My idea is to start the film with an image of the vixen locked out of her lair which has been plugged up. Her terror as she's pursued across the country. This is a big deal. It means training a fox fro...

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, ‘I’m in love with a man and I can’t have him.’ But that would only lead to questions she couldn’t answer, so she kept the secret and the pain inside...

The Man Who Loved Pride & Prejudice: A Modern Love Story with a Jane Austen Twist

There's a mathematics to nesting, I'm sure, that explains how length of stay + space available = accumulating way too much stuff.

All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane

At night the sky is pure astronomy.

Man Walks Into a Room

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big

Lisa Genova

I need complete silence when I write.

Chris Bohjalian

I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.

Betty White

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Charlie Chaplin

I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.

Pearl Cleage

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

Tom Hanks

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

Marilyn French

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Mark Twain

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

Jeff Greenfield

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

Ariel Gore

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison