Favourites Quote by Jane Austen

“She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could…

— Jane Austen

“She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once static and…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She was terribly pleased, because she had always, secretly, deep within her heart, believed that she could fly. And now here she was, doing…

— Kate DiCamillo

“It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would…

— Virginia Woolf

“Recalling, some time later, what I had felt at the time, I distinguished the impression of having been held for a moment in her…

— marcel proust

“She was quietly lovely, unassumingly pretty, completely unaware that at some point between awkwardness and adulthood she had grown so appealing. And because she…

— Amy Harmon

“...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were reluctant, who…

— Daphne du Maurier

“she was so humble and so sweet that her gentleness towards others, and her continual subordination of herself and of her own troubles, appeared…

— Marcel Proust

“She was as soft, as sexy as he remembered. Her taste hadn’t changed, her mouth moved beneath his the same way, as if those…

— M.J. Fredrick

“Here were these two, bandying little phrases, drawing purses, looking at cards, and both unconscious of how inarticulate all their real feelings were. Neither…

— Theodore Dreiser

“It was her damned acuity, he decided, that had bothered him from the start. She had a way of making a man feel transparent—laid…

— Grace Callaway

“And indeed she did not. I thought she had a tired, dragged appearance, but I would not say so. I knew her well, and…

— Marie Corelli