Jane Austin Quotes

#1. Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable - like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

Mark Twain

#3. From little seeds great flowers grow.

Jessie Burton

#4. Coming upon a space that sounds unique and incredible is just the best feeling.

Madi Diaz

#5. When hearts speak, they touch each other and transform the deepest sorrow.

Na'ama Yehuda

#6. If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the Bill of Rights, they should get one hell of a tax break. That is my opinion.

Jeanne Phillips

#7. Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.

Jane Urquhart

#8. During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#9. The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the right place.

Marcella Hazan

#10. Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy.

Archibald Geikie

#12. Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.

Owsley Stanley

#13. Enjoy each and every day. No one else will do it you.

Melissa Foster