“His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!” — 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
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time;...” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A person, be it a man or a woman, who has not been exposed to the great wonders of literature, must be… — 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
“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
“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Yes, yes, if you please. No reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own… — 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
“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
If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very… — 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
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
“What a delightful library you have at Pemberley, Mr. Darcy!” “It ought to be good,” he replied, “it has been the work… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is now expedient to give some description of Mrs. Allen, that the reader may be able to judge in what manner… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely… — 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
“and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt,… — 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
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny, Northanger Abbey” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur. To satisfy me, those characters must be united. I could not be happy… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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 enough as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in… — 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
“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
“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
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
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“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
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
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