Austen Quotes
83 quotes by 65 authors
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Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world…
— Meg Cabot
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Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she…
— E. M. Delafield
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.
— Edward Abbey
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If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If…
— Roddy Doyle
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit,…
— Gillian Flynn
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There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy…
— Margaret Drabble
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Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an…
— Leslie Fiedler
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Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.
— Ronald Blythe
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To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of…
— Bruce Feirstein
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Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
— George Saintsbury
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One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to…
— Alessandra Stanley
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Each of us has a private Austen.
— Karen Joy Fowler
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But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.
— Bertrand Russell
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So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they…
— Francine Prose
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I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.
— Mary McCarthy
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I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord. I'm…
— Rose McGowan
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With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits…
— Maggie Shipstead
Who Wrote These Austen Quotes
65 authors contributed a total of 83 Austen Quotes, led by these top contributors: