Austen Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Austen Fool Jane Treasure
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." ~ Jane Austen” — Lisa Lim Copy Share Image
“It is a truth universally acknowledged....well, in this crowd, I believe we can depend on our fellow bookies to fill in the rest. Thank… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“For the first time in her life Tomoe came to the realization that there are fools and fools. A man who loves others with… — Shūsaku Endō Copy Share Image
“(Jane Austen) is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I can always go back to Jane Austen. 'Mansfield Park' is full of wise aphorisms and relevant observations of people. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
“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 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
“Did Jane Austen ruin lives by giving people false expectations about love? Were her heroes just too good to be true? Could a real… — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley 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
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
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
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