Middle class Quote by Norman Moss

I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into…

— Kingsley Martin

“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

“Off to sell Jane Austen to the masses.”

— Laurel Ann Nattress

“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

“In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama”

— Harper Lee

“It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Do you care for any contemporary authors?” Matthew inquired. “I adore Jane Austen.” Matthew nodded. “I find her portrait of British society so accurate…

— Laila Ibrahim

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

— Natalie Tyler

“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

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." ~ Jane Austen”

— Lisa Lim

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the…

— Virginia Woolf