Emma Quote by David Nicholls

“She sometimes wondered what her twenty-two-year-old self would think of today's Emma Mayhew. Would she consider her self-centered? Compromised? A bourgeois sell-out, with her…

— David Nicholls

When I was in my twenties, I strongly identified with Jane Austen's 'Emma' - her human failings mixed with a desire to do good.

— Amanda Foreman

“Her tears fell abundantly—but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes—and she listened…

— Jane Austen

“For many years, biographers and scholars, beginning with her great nephew James Austen-Leigh, presented her as a quiet, reserved, proper woman, but one has…

— bETH pATTILLO

“Emma's mid-twenties had brought a second adolescence even more self-absorbed and doom-laden than the first one. 'Why don't you just come home, sweetheart?' her…

— David Nicholls

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.

— Emma Donoghue

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and…

— Jane Austen

“Emma - "faultless, in spite of her faults”

— Jane Austen

“From what you know of her, you will not be surprised that she threw some exaggeration and wilfulness, some pride and impetuosity, even into…

— George Eliot

she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her…

— Haruki Murakami

“I’m Emma. I’m here to make you see the meaning of your life.” Her exalted words were totally conquered by her dragging tone and…

— Debra Anastasia