Jane Smith Quotes

#1. But some characters in books are really real
Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.

Dodie Smith

#2. Ah, but you're the insidious type
Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.

Dodie Smith

#3. No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.

Ronald Fisher

#4. Everybody of any consequence or notoriety in Bath was well know by name to Mrs Smith.

Jane Austen

#5. We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense.

Norton Juster

#6. Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain that all five of them were capable of fending for themselves; that they could make tolerable fortunes as bodyguards, assassins, or mercenaries if need be.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#7. Some things are worth getting your heart broken for.

Sarah Jane Smith

#8. Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.

Joseph Rotblat

#9. Seeing the way his trousers clung to those most English parts.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#10. There used to be two of us always on the look-out for life, talking to Miss Blossom at night, wondering, hoping; two Bronte-Jane Austen girls, poor but spirited, two Girls of Godsend Castle.

Dodie Smith

#11. Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Miguel De Cervantes

#12. When you're doing comedy constantly, you're organized: you know where everything is, you know how to get out of it, you know how to stretch it. But, like, doing 'SNL,' I stopped doing spots, and then I would finally do some sets - it take me so long to, kind of, get in the rhythm of it.

Michael Che

#13. Years of fighting, andm before that, a lifetime on the cusp of it. Conflict we didn't understand ... had been at the center of everything.

Tea Obreht

#14. L.A. was just an inspiring kind of place to be. It felt like going to Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. Everybody's there. Everybody's hanging around. Everybody's talking about music.

Joe Perry

#15. Sarah smiled, one of those little childish smiles she was so good at. It very nearly broke the Doctor's heart. 'You know what I think? I think you don't really regenerate at all. I think you just keep taking off masks.

Lawrence Miles

#16. Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as we do of Harriet! And would Miss Bates have been endurable if she had been presented in the mood and manners of Sense and Sensibility?

Mary Lascelles

#17. If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

Renzo Piano

#18. How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

Dodie Smith

#19. Mary-Lynnette: "You have not read 'Pride and Prejudice'."
Ash: "Why not?"
Mary-Lynnette: "Because Jane Austen was a human."
Ash: "How do you know?"
Mary-Lynnette: "Well Jane Austen was a woman, and you're a chauvinist pig."
Ash: "Yes, well, that I can't argue.

L.J.Smith

#20. The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

William Hazlitt

#21. I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#22. But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#23. There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

Charles Dudley Warner

#24. 'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#25. She remembered love, though, and a feeling of warmth. It was like remembering light, or the glow that sometimes persists after a light has gone out.

Alexander McCall Smith

#26. What an excellent father you have, girls!' said she, when the door was shut. 'Such joys are scarce since the good Lord saw fit to close the gates of Hell and doom the dead to walk amongst us.

Seth Grahame-Smith