Jane-austen-literature-humor Quote by Mary Gordon

“Do not despair, little Alice. Only persist, and thou shalt see, Jane Austen's all in all to thee.”

— Fay Weldon

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Natalie Tyler

“For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“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

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

— Vaishnavi Nair K

“Off to sell Jane Austen to the masses.”

— Laurel Ann Nattress

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

— Laurie Viera Rigler

“In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.”

— Mary Lascelles

“A lot of aspiring writers quote the right people, but they do so like Mary Bennett in Pride and Prejudice. They quote Austen like…

— Douglas Wilson

“Well,if there's nothing else you ladies need in the library, Sophie, would you care to accompany me on a walk about the grounds?" I…

— Rachel Hawkins

“Jane Austen did not become one of the most renowned authors in the English language by having her characters dye their armpit hair and…

— Milo Yiannopoulos