“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart." Jane Austen in 'Emma” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I mean, I knew of Jane Austen's work, and I guess I'm a fan at a distance insofar as from a literary… — Josh O'Connor Copy Share Image
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand.” — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
“I wondered if there were ever times when Dad didn't sound like he escaped from a Jane Austen novel.” — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was… — Julie Walters 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
Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
“That innovator is the aforementioned Hugh Thomson, who might be called the Colin Firth of Austen-inspired book illustration." (P. 52)” — Devoney Looser Copy Share Image
I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted… — Jennifer Paynter Copy Share Image
I think Jane Austen is like Shakespeare, in a slightly different way. I think people will continue to revisit these stories because… — Josh O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I must confess I love female writers: Jane Austen, Isak Dinesen, Colette, Willa Cather, Dawn Powell, Joan Didion. I grew up on… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
“Matthais: *Sighs* England. I’d take my Valentine to England on a tour of all the places from Jane Austen’s books. Derbyshire, Mr.… — A&E Kirk Copy Share Image
'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
“For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I self-medicate with fat, carbohydrates, and Jane Austen, my number one drug of choice, my constant companion through every breakup, every disappointment,… — Laurie Viera Rigler Copy Share Image
All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“... [In 'Pride and Prejudice'] Mr Collins's repulsiveness in his letter [about Lydia's elopement] does not exist only at the level of… — Andrew Elfenbein 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
“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
“Stories survive not just because of empathetic characters that we can still identify with but because the author has something to say… — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
“Shortly after you left the room, Bushell came over and spoke to your father. I was not near enough to hear what… — Jennifer Paynter Copy Share Image
“Jane Austen's narrative style seems to me to show (especially in the later novels) a curiously chameleon-like faculty; it varies in colour… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
![“... [In 'Pride and Prejudice'] Mr Collins's repulsiveness in his letter [about Lydia's elopement] does not exist only at the level of the sentence: it permeates all aspects of his rhetoric. Austen's point is that the well-formed sentence belongs to a self-enclosed mind, incapable of sympathetic…” quote by Andrew Elfenbein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/andrew-elfenbein-61722_closed-mind_in-pride-and-prejudice-mr-collins-s-repu_2489107.jpg)
