But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny, Northanger Abbey” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure and over every new novel to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“What say you, Mary? for you are a young lady of deep reflection I know, and read great books, and make extracts."… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“With a perversity of judgement, which must be attributed to his not having by Nature a very strong head, the Graces, the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The person, be it lady or gentlemen who has not pleasure in a good book must be intoleranlty stupid. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“All this she must possess," added Darcy, "and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. I have read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and of all who loved… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You are fond of history! And so are Mr. Allen and my father; and I have two brothers who do not dislike… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
