“(Jane Austen) is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I have observed...in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person." Jane Austen in 'Emma” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness. — Seth Grahame-Smith 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
'Bridgerton' is something a bit like if Jane Austen met Gossip Girl' and maybe like 45 Shades of Grey.' — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
“JANE AUSTEN was born in 1775 in the village of Steventon, Hampshire, the daughter of an Anglican clergyman. The” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Did you just say you Think Mansfield Park is boring? Get out of my house.” — Joel Derfner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
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
“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
You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romantic life. Then… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the… — Leslie Fiedler 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
“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
“This was the authentic voice of the educated British middle class, unshakable in its tone, meeting the war with light-hearted fortitude and… — Norman Moss Copy Share Image
“Even when there were good wars to write about, writers such as Jane Austen wrote novels concerning marriage. They usually went like… — Dan Wilbur 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
“Her (Jane Austen) moral message is infused with ideological insistence on the merits of good conduct, good manners, sound reason, and marriage… — Anonymous 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
“Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
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