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> [“Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as we do of Harriet! And would Miss Bates have been endurable if she had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lascelles/charlotte-palmer-is-no-sillier-than-harriet-smith-and-yet-how/)

[Mary Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lascelles/)

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## More by Mary Lascelles

> [“A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lascelles/a-story-conducted-by-the-time-of-a-clock-and-calendars-alone-would-be/)

[Mary Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lascelles/)

> [“Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lascelles/charlotte-palmer-is-no-sillier-than-harriet-smith-and-yet-how/)

[Mary Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lascelles/)

> [“In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lascelles/in-jane-austen-it-was-the-critical-faculty-that-would-not-be-quieted/)

[Mary Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lascelles/)

> [“A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lascelles/a-clever-girl-may-pass-through-the-phase-of-foolish-miss-on-the-way/)

[Mary Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lascelles/)

> [“When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lascelles/when-many-story-tellers-occupy-themselves-with-a-social-world-which/)

[Mary Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lascelles/)

> [“Others beside Jane Austen have made their Eltons, though none quite so cooly as she.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lascelles/others-beside-jane-austen-have-made-their-eltons-though-none-quite-so/)

[Mary Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lascelles/)

> [“Jane Austen's narrative style seems to me to show (especially in the later novels) a curiously chameleon-like faculty; it varies in colour as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lascelles/jane-austen-s-narrative-style-seems-to-me-to-show-especially-in-the/)

[Mary Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lascelles/)

> [“Jane Austen never repeats herself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lascelles/jane-austen-never-repeats-herself/)

[Mary Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lascelles/)

> [“Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lascelles/sympathy-compounded-of-liking-and-compassion-in-varying-proportions/)

[Mary Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lascelles/)

> [“I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other habits of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lascelles/i-suspect-that-jane-austen-s-practice-of-denying-herself-the-aid-of/)

[Mary Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lascelles/)

> [“The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that will not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lascelles/the-artist-i-suppose-usually-pays-for-the-privilege-by-some-sort-of/)

[Mary Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lascelles/)

> [“Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lascelles/mannerism-especially-when-it-takes-the-form-of-recurrent-word-or/)

[Mary Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lascelles/)

> [“The sole agents, indeed, in the action of her novels are individual human beings. And the comedy is the outcome of their making fools…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lascelles/the-sole-agents-indeed-in-the-action-of-her-novels-are-individual/)

[Mary Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lascelles/)

> [“As for Elizabeth Bennet, our chief reason for accepting her point of view as a reflection of her author's is the impression that she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lascelles/as-for-elizabeth-bennet-our-chief-reason-for-accepting-her-point-of/)

[Mary Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lascelles/)

> [“Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lascelles/landscapes-we-must-owe-something-to-the-eye-of-the-beholder/)

[Mary Lascelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lascelles/)

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