#jane

Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character. ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#art

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen

Do you think because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am souless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh - it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave and we stood at God's feet, equal - as we are! ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#beauty

You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions. ↗

— Janette Rallison

#thatsaquote #trust #love

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? ↗

— Bette Davis

#best #best time #crawford #down #ever

I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#dance #gun #haunted #hill #house

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#corner #dining #i #jane #jane austen

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#again #both #daughter #direct #her

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of. ↗

— Julie Walters

#actually #austen #days #extraordinary #jane

How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million? ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

#guy #how #jane #make #me