Jane Austen Letters Quotes

#1. I wish my name was Tom Kite.

Ian Baker-Finch

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

Jane Austen

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

George Sampson

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

Fay Weldon

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Joseph Kosinski

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Jane Austen

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

Daniel Kahneman

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

Jane Austen

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

Dave Barry

#14. ... 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

#15. 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

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

Wayne Dyer

#17. 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

#18. 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