Austen Quote by Ronald Blythe

“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

“...all the great issues in human life make their appearance on Jane Austen's narrow stage. True, it's only the stage of petty domestic circumstance,…

— ian watt

“Few novelists can be more scrupulous than Jane Austen as to the phrasing of the thoughts of their characters. ”

— Mary Lascelles

Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance…

— Tamsin Egerton

“The visible structure of Jane Austen's stories may be flimsy enough; but their foundations drive deep down into the basic principles of human conduct.…

— David Cecil

I think Jane Austen is like Shakespeare, in a slightly different way. I think people will continue to revisit these stories because they remain…

— Josh O'Connor

“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

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

— J. K. Rowling

No good writer ever merely cheered us up. But there's an unblinking stare into the darkness of things we have to go elsewhere to…

— Howard Jacobson

“Today we are less accustomed to look for universal norms in what we read ... partly because we tend to see life, and therefore…

— Susannah Carson

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

— Mark Haddon

“Her (Jane Austen) moral message is infused with ideological insistence on the merits of good conduct, good manners, sound reason, and marriage as an…

— Anonymous