Jane Austen Quotes

it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Jane Austen

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• Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Magic
  • Working
  • Watching

• Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Truth
  • Memory
  • Complicated

• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Father
  • Man
  • Wife

• In America, music is more tightly categorized.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • America
  • More

• I won't join another band again.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Band
  • Again
  • Join

• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Inspire

• Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Book
  • Picture

• Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Never
  • Take

• I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Means
  • Ambitious
  • Take Care

• We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • High
  • English

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • History
  • Tell

• When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Night
  • Single
  • Myself

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • American
  • First
  • India

• Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Everything
  • Without
  • Poison

• Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Way
  • You
  • Wrong

• The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Encouraging
  • China

• I'm into the whole skincare thing.

  

  Jason Flemyng

• You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Work
  • Win
  • Discipline

• Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

  

  Anwar Sadat

• Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he’s still out there, bidin’ his time, like, but I don’ believe it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Die

• You will notice already that Mr. Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Believe
  • Flowers
  • Prosy

• it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Believe
  • Rest