Top 100 Becoming Jane Quotes
#1. Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.
Roger Ebert
#2. poking around in this dump, as it would be
Jane Smiley
#3. She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even to try to observe their effect.
Jane Austen
#4. Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.
Jane Porter
#5. For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.
Jane Gardam
#6. Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.
Jane Clayson
#7. Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.
Jane Austen
#8. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story.
Jane Austen
#9. I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.
Jane Campion
#10. My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store.
Jane Levy
#11. THIS little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended for immediate publication.
Jane Austen
#12. I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.
Jane Siberry
#13. Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!
Charlotte Bronte
#14. Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that.
Jane Yolen
#15. Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.
Jane Fonda
#16. That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Later
Jane Austen
#17. What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.
Jane Wiedlin
#18. I'm a chanteuse and a diva, and I'm an actress who likes a script.
Jane Badler
#19. In other words, I am the Brunette Who Keeps Her Head.
Jane Heller
#20. Jane Austen? I feel that I am approaching dangerous ground. The reputation of Jane Austen is surrounded by cohorts of defenders who are ready to do murder for their sacred cause.
Arnold Bennett
#21. No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.
Jane D. Hull
#22. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen
#23. These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Choose your own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more.
Jane Austen
#24. I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.
Jane Haddam
#25. Miss Bennet he acknowledged to be pretty, but she smiled too much.
Jane Austen
#26. Love is neither a conditional business nor an ever-fixed mark arrangement. People always know somewhere inside them if they are not loved. No gestures, talk, conciliation, pronouncements can prevail over that deep instinctual knowledge.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
#27. Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
Jane Birkin
#28. I am not someone who's very good at looking after herself, and I am also not someone who goes on holiday very often.
Jane Green
#29. Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
Jane Howard
#30. If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?
Jane Haddam
#31. My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.
Jane McGonigal
#32. As far back as I can remember, I have worshipped the sun. My skin is fair, but as the years have gone by, it has toughened and darkened. I now turn a rich golden brown every summer, but only after the first day of burning.
Jane Green
#33. A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.
Jane Austen
#34. I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.
Jane Fonda
#35. I believe only in art and failure.
Jane Rule
#36. Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.
Jane Siberry
#38. He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur. To satisfy me, those characters must be united.
Jane Austen
#39. All this she must possess, and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. Mr. Darcy
Jane Austen
#40. Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution.
Jane Ripley
#41. I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.
Jane Fonda
#43. Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.
Jane D. Hull
#44. No-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you've survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#45. 'Sin Nombre' was almost like the adolescent version of 'Jane Eyre.' 'Jane Eyre' sort of picks up where 'Sin Nombre' ends. It's about this girl who starts off on her own at her lowest point of despair, and she figures out how she got there.
Cary Fukunaga
#46. I think it would be best if you came down from there before I explained that."
"I think I'll stay right where I am, thank you," I said. "And you, you stay where you are, or I'll ... I don't know what I'll do, but it will really hurt. You, I mean.
Molly Harper
#47. To be fair he is Lord Byron," Jane said. "I don't know many people who haven't slept with him at one time or another."
Jane Fairfax
Michael Thomas Ford
#48. Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? - Dan Landry
Jane Rainwater
#49. It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.
Jane Monheit
#50. If we could just stop building up armies and things like that, we would have all the money we need for wildlife and poverty.
Jane Goodall
#51. I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.
Val McDermid
#52. I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.
Jane Birkin
#53. I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward.
Jane Asher
#54. One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
Jane Austen
#55. If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.
Roddy Doyle
#56. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be any more
Jane Austen
#57. Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed passion; who focus heat as the magnifying glass focuses sun: until the paper catches. Read them.
Jane Hirshfield
#58. People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don't. I feel that it's quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.
Jane Goodall
#59. A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.
Jane Austen
#60. ..but if I can't tell my best friend, who can I tell??
Jane Green
#61. Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.
Jane Fonda
#62. My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.
Thomas Jane
#63. I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.
Jane Campion
#64. I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.
Candas Jane Dorsey
#65. Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.
Jane Alison
#66. Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.
Emma Thompson
#67. I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.
Jane Pauley
#68. Hat sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself
Jane Austen
#69. Did you take your sassy pills tonight, Jules?"
"Seriously, Jane. I will cut a bitch."
"Where did you even learn that expression? Have you been watching RuPaul's Drag Race again?
Nicole Peeler
#70. Whenever I do talks around the country, I map out my run. Gives me something fun to do and to look forward to doing.
Jane McGonigal
#71. I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene. It's not a movie-by-movie or a part-by-part basis. It's a day-by-day thing, and sometimes an hour-by-hour thing.
Thomas Jane
#72. Where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and,
Jane Austen
#73. Don't patronize me, Caro", he said, sounding even angrier. "You think I don't know what it means to make this commitment but I do ... Don't dismiss how I feel just because ... just because I'm younger than you.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#74. I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is.
Millicent Martin
#75. It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.
Jane Pauley
#76. And this," cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully.
Jane Austen
#77. When we know our strengths, we're more likely to use them.
Jane McGonigal
#78. When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.
Jane Fonda
#79. Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.
Shannon Hale
#80. Books are a gateway to the extraordinary, a portal for the unfettered imagination and limitless creativity.
Diana Jane Heath
#82. If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
Jane Rule
#83. In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.
Jane Smiley
#85. If you love a waist, you waste a love.
Jane Yolen
#87. God have pity on the smell of gasoline
which finds its way like an arm
through a car window,
more human than kerosene,
more unctuous, more manly.
S. Jane Sloat
#88. With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.
Jane Austen
#89. Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.
Jane Austen
#90. How could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#91. Resentment, the emotion that, Jane Amery would write, 'nails every one of us onto the cross of his ruined past.'
Laura Hillenbrand
#92. But yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend its continuing very long in equal force.
Jane Austen
#93. Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
Jane Austen
#94. I'm going to miss you, girls," he told the plants.
"You have names for them?" croaked Jane.
"This is Beatrice."
"You're not really a people person, are you?"
"Humans piss me off.
Adam Baker
#95. My feelings are not often shared, not often understood - Marianne Dashwood
Jane Austen
#96. You write to be read. That is the bottom line.
Jane Yolen
#97. We're going to have a big frickin' problem when he starts feeling those shots", and I decide that Jane is right, and anyway, Ashland Avenue is terrible, so we need to leave the Hideout posthate.
John Green
#98. To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.
Thomas Jane
#100. Now that's a sight for sore eyes, Sebastian. Maybe I should just leave you here: the hotel maids might appreciate that. Or, better still, maybe I'll take a photograph of you on my phone. Dont worry, I wont post it on the internet, it'll just be my screen saver.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
