Jane Austen Letters Quotes

#1. Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.

Jane Austen

#2. My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them--by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

Jane Austen

#3. If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic.

Chris Bohjalian

#4. If you have anything in your heart other than love, you've got to get it out.

Wayne Dyer

#5. Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.
Jane Austen's Letters August 1796

Jane Austen

#6. ... but her Letters were always unsatisfactory, and though she did not openly avow her feelings, yet every line proved her to be Unhappy.

Jane Austen

#7. Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.

Dave Barry

#8. Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female.

Jane Austen

#9. The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

Daniel Kahneman

#10. I wish my name was Tom Kite.

Ian Baker-Finch

#11. The idea that growth equals profitability is a misconception. If you can't afford the financial or qualitative side of growth, it can just as easily put you out of business.

Mark Cuban

#12. What a good-for-nothing-fellow Charles is to bespeak the stockings - I hope he will be too hot all the rest of his life for it! -

Jane Austen

#13. You never want to intentionally make a confusing movie.

Joseph Kosinski

#14. The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

Jane Austen

#15. She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

Jane Austen

#16. Do not despair, little Alice. Only persist, and thou shalt see, Jane Austen's all in all to thee.

Fay Weldon

#17. Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.

George Sampson

#18. You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

Jane Austen