336 Quotes About Jane-austen

The sole agents, indeed, in the action of her novels are individual human beings. And the comedy is the outcome of their making fools of themselves and of one another.

Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.

She was opinionated without being pushy. When choosing a book to read aloud, she would try to interest him in those spunky English heroines she liked so much. He proposed Thucydides, but he understood how she, being a Quaker, did not want to read about the Peloponnesian War. They came together on Henry James.

Real men wear cravats.

One day I waited for her to go to work, and the instant I was alone with Perla, I snapped. “My fucking life is ruled by more protocols than a Jane Austen character!” It might have been the nerdiest meltdown in history.

Jane Austen never repeats herself.

In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.

But then I am unlike other people I dare say.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be a heroine.