Jane austen Quote by Mary Lascelles Download Open image ““Jane Austen never repeats herself.”” — Mary Lascelles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jane austen
“I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.” — Laurie Viera Rigler Copy Share Image
“My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life . I don't have the courage to read it, though. I'm afraid to… — Katherine Reay Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.” — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up. — George Sampson Copy Share Image
“A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.” — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
“Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.” — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
“When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
“Others beside Jane Austen have made their Eltons, though none quite so cooly as she.” — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
“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 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
“I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other habits of… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
“The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that will not… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
“Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
“The sole agents, indeed, in the action of her novels are individual human beings. And the comedy is the outcome of their making fools… — Mary Lascelles 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
“The milk of human kindness was kept often in the larder, and the tea served with lemon.” — John Halperin Copy Share Image
“Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
“The heart is a strange thing," Evelyn said, staring off into space. "It can be broken easily and takes a long time to mend,… — Sarah Holman Copy Share Image
“At last, the details finally settled, Abbey found herself coming to terms with the inevitable: the whole lot of them would go to Cape… — Emily Ann Benedict Copy Share Image
“As he talked, I watched Emma and wondered what is to become of her. She is of an age to be married but she… — Amanda Grange Copy Share Image
“I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.” — George Knightley Copy Share Image
“Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Your powers of observation are formidable," Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.” — Stephanie Wardrop Copy Share Image
