Austen Quote by Margot Asquith Download Open image “[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.” — Margot Asquith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Austen Chamberlain Conviction Faith Loyal Politician
“Her (Jane Austen) moral message is infused with ideological insistence on the merits of good conduct, good manners, sound reason, and marriage as an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is not accidental that the most unsympathetic characters in Austen's novels are those who are incapable of genuine dialogue with others. They rant.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Let your convictions be always calm, serene and superior to the inevitable trials of life. - Sir Wilfrid Laurier” — Sir Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
“He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgment.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Few novelists can be more scrupulous than Jane Austen as to the phrasing of the thoughts of their characters. ” — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
“(Jane Austen) is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The over-all impression is one of a town that is waiting to die. It is not enough, these days, to say that Chamberlain will… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. -Anne Elliot, Jane Austen’s PERSUASION” — Staci Hart Copy Share
If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“We desire no conquest, no dominion, we seek no indemnities, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.” — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“The home the military top brass had created for themselves was "picturesque, romantic and unreal", he wrote. "It was as though men were playing… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“The French suffered 531,000 casualties (dead, wounded and captured) in those three months, roughly as many as in the eight months of Verdun in… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
“The celestial brightness of Pride and Prejudice is unequalled even in Jane Austen's other work; after a life of much disappointment and grief, in… — Elizabeth Jenkins Copy Share Image
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro. — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“...I thought he was the man I'd been waiting for. A hero right out of Austen. The one who would finally make everything okay.… — Beth Pattillo Copy Share Image
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
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