Colin-firth Quote by Devoney Looser

“Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.”

— Natalya Vorobyova

“Oh no! No! Austen’s works merit each of their readings.”

— Vaishnavi Nair K

“Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.”

— Mary Lascelles

“It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.”

— Richard Curtis

“Reading Austen is a frickin' mine field.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“A lot of aspiring writers quote the right people, but they do so like Mary Bennett in Pride and Prejudice. They quote Austen like…

— Douglas Wilson

“Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane…

— JJ Feild

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“Colin Firth cures everything.”

— Tichakorn Khroopan Hill

“Perhaps there's something to be learnt from novels after all" - Mr Collins, Charlotte ~ Pride & Prejudice Continues.”

— Karen Aminadra

“There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we…

— Alain de Botton