Jane Austen Book Club Quotes

#1. Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Karen Joy Fowler

#2. History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it starts to become more and more complicated, which is not the stuff of Hollywood films. Complications tend to break down the budget.

Christopher McQuarrie

#3. Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject - and when he spoke again, it was something totally different.

Jane Austen

#4. I embellish the truth of their lives with the lies of my imagination.

Charlie Lovett

#5. The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone's mind.

Karen Joy Fowler

#6. The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.

Jack Black

#7. I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.

Jenny Eclair

#8. It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,' said he. 'Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.'
'Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.

Jane Austen

#9. The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.

Publilius Syrus

#10. My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.

Loretta Lynn

#11. If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play!

Charlotte M. Mason

#12. Back home, we watch a lot of movies, and that was never available to us. When I came to America, I was like, 'No, it's really coming out this Friday? Not three months from now?'

Grace Gealey

#13. We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#14. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.

David Livingstone