Quote by Margaret C. Sullivan

“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

“Few novelists can be more scrupulous than Jane Austen as to the phrasing of the thoughts of their characters. ”

— Mary Lascelles

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

— Laurie Viera Rigler

“I always read Jane Austen during wars. Her complete lack of interest in Napoleon's activities has a soothingly insulating effect.”

— Louise Andrews Kent

“I’d mistakenly shown myself to be the kind of guy (test subject) who stood out in her garden wondering about her underwear.”

— Graham Parke

“Off to sell Jane Austen to the masses.”

— Laurel Ann Nattress

“she liked to laugh that a young widow who'd just come into a good fortune must be, to misquote Jane Austen, in want of…

— Jennifer Ashley

“There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.” (Jane Austen)”

— Jane Austen

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

— Vaishnavi Nair K

“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

“Austen really had a thing against Marys.”

— Katherine Reay