Austen Quotes

I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.

There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare.

Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating

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.

After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.

I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.

Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question.

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.

I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.

One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

Words made you mighty. Words, stories, books: they could take you anywhere, and they could go out anywhere in the world. Jenny -- Jane -- picked up her pen, and began to write.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book, ' I said. He didn't hit me.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves.

Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?

You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!

Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well.

Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has left behind.

When once we are buried you think we are gone. But behold me immortal!

How unfortunate, considering I have decided to loathe him for eternity

Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint

I dearly love a laugh.

I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.

Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man.

You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. My mistake. My regret. My love.

These were reflections that required some time to soften

He shortly found himself arrived at politics

(on the portrayal of women in literature) Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree

I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while.

Darling, in this family we don't call anyone a novelist who has not written more books than Jane Austen.

I beg your pardon

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time

Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings

You deserve a longer letter than this

...seeing the way his trousers clung to those most English parts.

Your powers of observation are formidable, " Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.

I suppose I look acceptable, the black (haired) sheep among the Barrett blondes.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life.That word is love."(Sophocles)by Adam Harford, Duke of Harford, from the last page of "Sophie's Salvation