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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“What?! Oh, Ellen, so the rumors are true! She’s married to Everett Shepherd! Why, I could wring his scrawny neck! I knew… — Kelsey Bryant Copy Share Image
To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“At first reading, these are stories about love and marriage and the conventional heterosexual happily-ever-after. Only at the second does a sneaky… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“Nor do we need such a great deal of ingenuity to see that all, or nearly all, the great issues in human… — Susannah Carson Copy Share Image
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a warm house and a well-stocked fridge must be in… — Heather Hacking Copy Share Image
“I resolutely refuse to believe that the state of Edward's health had anything to do with this, and I don't say this… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But neither could compare with the gargantuan natural edifice that was the mountain upon which Nachtstürm Castle rose. It was a mountain… — Emily C.A. Snyder Copy Share Image
“my idea of good company.. is the company of clever, well-informed people. who have a great deal of conversation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Banii pot aduce fericire numai acolo unde n-o poate aduce nimic altceva. In afara de anumite inlesniri, banii nu pot oferi bucurii… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you -- can you really be in love with James?” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She was opinionated without being pushy. When choosing a book to read aloud, she would try to interest him in those spunky… — Barbara Wright Copy Share Image
“At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song -… — Jennifer Paynter Copy Share Image
“Suddenly a force greater than my common sense—which, I’ll admit, has been pretty faulty lately, propels me—and I find myself creeping up… — Stephanie Wardrop Copy Share Image
