Austen Quotes · Page 2

“Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what…

— Jane Austen

Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

— Deanna Raybourn

Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“Sence and Sensibility, for instance, came out in three separate volumes, as did Pride and Prejudice (so the next time you read…

— Amy Elizabeth Smith

I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought,…

— Rose McGowan

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

— Margot Asquith

I think as far as the action genre goes, I like when it has a sense of humor. I'm a Jane Austen/Jane…

— Maggie Grace

Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how…

— Virginia Woolf

If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood…

— Chris Bohjalian

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I…

— Sebastian Faulks

I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university…

— Naomie Harris

Couples are really funny, because if they are together, they can fight and do fun things together. In Jane Austen books, marriage…

— Mindy Kaling

I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was…

— Frances O'Connor

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

— Joyce Carol Oates

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole…

— Bertrand Russell

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion…

— Alain de Botton

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of…

— Mark Twain

“It's a truth universally acknowledged...”

— Jane Austen

I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and…

— Tom Hiddleston

Each of us has a private Austen.

— Karen Joy Fowler

I've never got on very well with Jane Austen.

— Anita Brookner

“Anne always contemplated them as some of the happiest creatures of her acquaintance; but still, saved as we all are, by some…

— Jane Austen

Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating

— Mark Haddon