Jane > Jane's Quotes

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
― Gabrielle Roy

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
― Steve Martin

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“No longer was my world one of brave heroes; I was learning all too swiftly the women's pain that throbbed unspoken through the tales of their feats.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“I had hit upon a truth of womanhood: however blameless a life we led, the passions and the greed of men could bring us to ruin, and there was nothing we could do.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne