Humour Quote by Jane Austen

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by…

— Jane Austen

“...there was an impatience in her tone, almost an accusation, as she added that academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“They were oddities, marginal and not exactly respectable. For her part, Chaps was too well read to be considered entirely proper. Books had made…

— Sheridan Hay

“This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing just her share of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She seemed to think reading was some sort of hobby, as opposed to being as necessary as breathing, sleeping, and eating.”

— Michelle Cooper

“The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them…

— Alan Bennett

“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people.”

— Alan Bennett

“Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of…

— Louise Penny

“-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading…

— James Hilton

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some…

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux