Austen Quote by William F. Buckley, Jr Download Open image “One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.” — William F. Buckley, Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Austen Jane
“I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.” — Laurie Viera Rigler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles. — Tracy Chevalier 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
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 Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness… — Cathleen Schine 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
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made themselves the… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor… — William F. Buckley, Jr 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