88 Quotes About Jane

I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all; they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen. It is a pity they are not knocked on the head at once, before they reach Admiral Baldwin's age.

Take off your coat.""Excuse me?""Take it off.""No.""I want it off.""Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane]

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last; you will in the course of the next two or three years meet with somebody more generally unexceptionable than anyone you have yet known, who will love you as warmly as possible, and who will so completely attract you that you will feel you never really loved before.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.

Life goes on, and deadlines arrive,even when it seems the world should stopout of respect for a shattered self-esteem.

Payne put her palm up to her pounding heart. “I . . . don’t understand why you would . . . do this?”He glanced over his shoulder, staring at the human she loved. “You’re my sister. And he’s what you want.” He shrugged. “And . . . well, I fell in love with a human. I fell in love with my Jane within an hour of meeting her — and . . . yeah. I’ve got nothing without her. If what you feel for Manello is evenhalf what I have for my shellan, your life is never going to be complete without him —

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." ~ Jane Austin. Arguably one of the best opening lines in literary history. However, to make it a modern retelling it would have to read:It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man or women no matter his or her fortune, must be in want of a life partner.

...and I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury.