Jane austen Quote by Elizabeth Jenkins

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

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“Jane austen says: a heroine has pride despite her imperfections.”

— Patrice Hannon

“Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.” ~ Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice)”

— Jane Austen

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! – Jane Austen,…

— Julie Klassen

“Pride and Prejudice opens with one of the most famous sentences ever written: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in…

— Catherine Reef

“She’d read all of Jane Austen that year—Austen was good, but when you told people you liked Pride and Prejudice, they expected you to…

— Emma Straub

“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

I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I…

— Charlotte Bronte

“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

“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…

— Mary Lascelles

No good writer ever merely cheered us up. But there's an unblinking stare into the darkness of things we have to go elsewhere to…

— Howard Jacobson

“[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's…

— William Deresiewicz