Books Quotes by Jane Austen

“I am not a great reader and I have pleasure in many things.”

— Jane Austen

“[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

With a book he was regardless of time.

— Jane Austen

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

“If a book is well written,I always find it to short.”

— Jane Austen

“If a book is well written i would find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

I have read your book, and I disapprove.

— Jane Austen

“She's a great reader and takes pleasure in nothing else.”

— Jane Austen

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

— Jane Austen

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

— Jane Austen

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

— Jane Austen

...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

— Jane Austen

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

— Jane Austen

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

— Jane Austen

“The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur”

— Jane Austen

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

— Jane Austen

“…how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her family cares, is still…

— Jane Austen

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading…

— Jane Austen

Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so;…

— Jane Austen

“How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How…

— Jane Austen

“He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and…

— Jane Austen

“This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave…

— Jane Austen

Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female…

— Jane Austen

. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection,…

— Jane Austen

“The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and of all who loved…

— Jane Austen

“I will read you their names directly; here they are in my pocket-book. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the…

— Jane Austen

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs…

— Jane Austen

“I am sure Lady Russell would like him. He is just Lady Russell's sort. Give him a book, and he will read…

— Jane Austen

“With a perversity of judgement, which must be attributed to his not having by Nature a very strong head, the Graces, the…

— Jane Austen

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author;…

— Jane Austen

“It is now expedient to give some description of Mrs. Allen, that the reader may be able to judge in what manner…

— Jane Austen

I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should…

— Jane Austen

“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”…

— Jane Austen

“I suppose you mean Camilla?" "Yes, that's the book; such unnatural stuff! An old man playing at see-saw, I took up the…

— Jane Austen

“Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of…

— Jane Austen

“A sermon, well delivered, is more uncommon even than prayers well read. A sermon, good in itself, is no rare thing. It…

— Jane Austen

“Encouraged by this to a further examination of his opinions, she proceeded to question him on the subject of books; her favourite…

— Jane Austen

“You are fond of history! And so are Mr. Allen and my father; and I have two brothers who do not dislike…

— Jane Austen

“You have been abroad then?” said Henry, a little surprised. “Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always…

— Jane Austen

“Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom, so common with novel-writers, of degrading, by their contemptuous censure,…

— Jane Austen