"Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of……" — George Saintsbury
"Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist."
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15 Quotes by George Saintsbury
George Saintsbury has 15 quotes on this site.
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Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing…
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It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and…
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When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me…
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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western…
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But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
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The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were…
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But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style…
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To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin…
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The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both…
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But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when…
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The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but…
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Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
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More Austen Quotes
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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…
— 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…
— 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,…
— 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…
— 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.…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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,…
— 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…
— Bruce Feirstein
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One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English…
— Unknown Author
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