“I felt that I admired you, but I told myself it was only friendship; and till I began to make comparisons between… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable - that one false step involves in her endless ruin - that her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“When I first met him (Michael) at the beginning of the year and found out that I would have to be his… — Stephanie Wardrop Copy Share Image
“Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
“To a good man, yes, one who knows her in all her moods, who can laugh at her follies and rejoice in… — Amanda Grange Copy Share Image
“Lady Jane Gray, who tho' inferior to her lovely Cousin the Queen of Scots, was yet an amiable young woman & famous… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life . I don't have the courage to read it, though. I'm… — Katherine Reay Copy Share Image
“Do not speak unflatteringly of Jane," Flora said, walking beside Chad. "She is the greatest writer to have ever lived." "I thought… — Krista McGee Copy Share Image
“Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days… — Jennifer Paynter Copy Share Image
“After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If I understand you rightly, you had formed a surmise of such horror as I have hardly words to-- Dear Miss Morland,… — Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Copy Share Image
“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
“My beloved Laura” (said she to me a few Hours before she died) “take warning from my unhappy End …Beware of fainting-fits…Beware… — Jane Austen Love and Freindship Copy Share Image
“I couldn't exactly blame Jane Austen for being a romantic. What the hell else was there to do back then for fun?” — Kristin Walker Copy Share Image
Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really… — JJ Feild Copy Share Image
“Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was willing to make… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If you mean Miss Austen, I don't find her particularly romantic," Tasmin declared. "Can't say that I care much about the marriage… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
“The sole agents, indeed, in the action of her novels are individual human beings. And the comedy is the outcome of their… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
