Jane austen Quote by Mary Lascelles

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

— Vaishnavi Nair K

“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's narrative style seems to me to show (especially in the later novels) a curiously chameleon-like faculty; it varies in colour as the…

— Mary Lascelles

“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

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

— Natalie Tyler

“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

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

— Louise Andrews Kent

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

— Virginia Woolf

“Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.”

— Shannon Hale

“Miss Bulstrode had another faculty which demonstrated her superiority over most other women. She could listen.”

— Agatha Christie

“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