Quote by Jane Austen

“Jane Austen? I feel that I am approaching dangerous ground. The reputation of Jane Austen is surrounded by cohorts of defenders who are ready…

— Arnold Bennett

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart." Jane Austen in 'Emma”

— Jane Austen

“Emma was just like any other mistress; and the charm of novelty, falling down slowly like a dress, exposed only the eternal monotony of…

— Gustave Flaubert

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

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." ~ Jane Austen”

— Lisa Lim

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

— Jane Austen

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”…

— Jane Austen

“(Jane Austen) is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.”

— Shannon Hale

“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

“But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, that she might make it…

— Gustave Flaubert

“No situation in which you have no choice is a good one, Emma”

— Cassandra Clare