Books Quote by Louise Andrews Kent

“When I asked her what she'd thought of Pride and Prejudice, she only wondered aloud how anyone could have written a novel set in…

— Michelle Cooper

“Oh no! No! Austen’s works merit each of their readings.”

— Vaishnavi Nair K

“I couldn't exactly blame Jane Austen for being a romantic. What the hell else was there to do back then for fun?”

— Kristin Walker

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

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.”

— Richard Curtis

“I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.”

— Laurie Viera Rigler

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

— Lisa Lim

“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

“Jane Austen has taught me to view the ridiculous and rude with amusement rather than disdain.”

— Natalie Tyler

“It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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