Jane Austen Novel Quotes

#1. I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Jane Austen

#2. Your mind, like a bicycle, goes wherever you want it to go.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. And you're right- I don't want nice. I want sparks and fire. I want a romance novel. A Jane Austen movie. A fairy tale.

Shari L. Tapscott

#4. If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.

Herb Kelleher

#5. Anne could do no more; but her heart prophesied some mischance to damp the perfection of her felicity.

Jane Austen

#6. The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

#7. 'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong.

Cathleen Schine

#8. Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

Leslie Fiedler

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

Terry Pratchett

#10. I ... am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever
& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

Jane Austen

#11. Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject - and when he spoke again, it was something totally different.

Jane Austen

#12. Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans.

Jane Austen

#13. Well,if there's nothing else you ladies need in the library, Sophie, would you care to accompany me on a walk about the grounds?
I wondered if there were ever times when Dad didn't sound like he'd just escaped from a Jane Austen novel.

Rachel Hawkins

#14. Discourse about the world merges with confessional discourse about oneself.

Mikhail Bakhtin

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

Terry Pratchett

#16. If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Jane Austen

#17. Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.

Natalya Vorobyova

#18. I wondered if there were ever times when Dad didn't sound like he escaped from a Jane Austen novel.

Rachel Hawkins

#19. Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

Mark Twain

#20. All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon written by a genius.

P.D. James

#21. Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

Jane Gardam

#22. 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.

Margaret Drabble

#23. If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

Charles M. Schulz

#24. Christ didn't call us into religion but into relationship, relationship with Him and with one another.

Rice Broocks

#25. I was always the ugly duckling; I never got attention from girls.

Kid Cudi

#26. How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

Dodie Smith

#27. Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

Bertrand Russell

#28. When Dax turned to her, those blue eyes that reminded her of the Aegean Sea pinning her, all thought process left her mind.

Katie Reus

#29. You have the power to let power go

Kanye West

#30. I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

John Keegan