336 Quotes About Jane-austen

And so well was she able to answer her own expectations, that when she joined them at dinner only two hours after she had first suffered the extinction of all her dearest hopes, no one would have supposed from the appearance of the sisters, that Elinor was mourning in secret over obstacles which must divide her for ever from the object of her love

Y así, en 1813, dieciséis años después de haber sido rechazada por los editores Cadell, Orgullo y prejuicio, una obra maestra de la literatura, vio la luz por fin. Y es que, ya se sabe, a veces las 'primeras impresiones' pueden ser engañosas.

The first experimental convinction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

Considero la bendición de una esposa como un tanto acierto se describe enlosdiscretos versos del poeta: " Del cielo el mejor y el último don".

[On Jane Austen] She was fully possessed of the idealism which is a necessary ingredient of the great satirist. If she criticized the institutions of earth, it was because she had very definite ideas regarding the institutions of heaven.

Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self-reflection and discovery.

...But I am not quite Jane Austen yet and there are limits to what I can stand.

I don’t intend to let myself become the kind of author who can only work in seclusion – after all, Jane Austen wrote in the sitting-room and merely covered up her work when a visitor called (though I bet she thought a thing or two) – but I am not quite Jane Austen yet and there are limits to what I can stand.

It is obvious that she is more interested in happiness than in the institution of marriage, in love and understanding than matrimony.