Quotes of: Jane-austen Keyword

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

Julie Burchill

Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

Susan Cheever

I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!

Sheri S. Tepper

When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another as to many of the major incidents, and if they draw on these limited resources like spend t...

Jane Austen And Her Art

Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as we do of Harriet! And would Miss Bates have been endurable if she had been presented in the mood and manners of Sens...

Jane Austen And Her Art

...she herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. "I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know.

Jane Austen: A Life

Much better he should read for the first half of his life and then live for the next half. That's the proper sequence to know what you're doing. Nowadays, they start off by living and never get around to reading – it explains the mess we're all in.

Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or Love, Death, and the SATs

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

E. W. Howe

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

William Weld

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

Julie Walters

Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans.

Alex Berenson

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

E. W. Howe

The thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people.

Winona LaDuke

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

Colleen McCullough

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

Bruce Feirstein

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.

Isabella Rossellini

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

Kristen Wiig

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

Lena Dunham

I'm a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will burst.

Telly Savalas

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Virginia Woolf