Jane Austen Novels Quotes

#1. 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 of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.

Cathleen Schine

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

Natalya Vorobyova

#3. 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

#4. Snobs are only fun in Jane Austen Novels.

Cat Winters

#5. Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#6. Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.

Alex Van Halen

#7. There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment.

Steven Gerrard

#8. 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.

Mary Lascelles

#9. Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.

Eli Broad

#10. Make sure to tell our baby that his father loves him every day of his life, just like I will always love you every single day.

E.L. Montes

#11. It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny, Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

#12. Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work; it is what I do.

Shannon Winslow

#13. But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

Jane Austen

#14. The progress of the friendship between Catherine and Isabella was quick as its beginning had been warm ... and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together.

Jane Austen

#15. Compassion seems to be the greatest power.

Dalai Lama

#16. Miss Austen's novels ... seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer ... is marriageableness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. To Jane Austen, for making romance novels classics and keepers for generations.

Mary Balogh

#18. The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur

Jane Austen

#19. I'll back English women against the world, Harry," said Lord Fermor, striking the table with his fist. "The betting is on

Oscar Wilde

#20. I worked at a McDonald's inside a Walmart. It wasn't even a real McDonald's.

Riki Lindhome

#21. every one of the novels. To some the delightful freshness and humour of Northanger Abbey, its completeness, finish, and entrain, obscure the undoubted critical facts that its scale is small, and its scheme, after all, that of burlesque or parody, a kind in which the

Jane Austen

#22. And she did what nobody thought of doing ... she consulted Anne.

Jane Austen

#23. I like him not, nor stands it safe with us
To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you;
I your commission will forthwith dispatch,
And he to England shall along with you:
The terms of our estate may not endure
Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow
Out of his lunacies.

William Shakespeare

#24. Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.

Roger Ebert

#25. I've never liked the telephone. It's a noisy, shrill intruder. If it were up to me, I'd ban all phones and bring back visiting days, like in Jane Austen and Edith Wharton novels:

Terri Cheney

#26. We are all fools in love

Jane Austen

#27. When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

Ringo Starr

#28. What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.

Shannon L. Alder

#29. '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

#30. I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.

Kit Reed

#31. I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

David Bowie

#32. The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Albert Einstein

#33. She saw, yet again, that her friend's compliments were just bits of art and artifice. They were paper swans, cunningly folded so that they could float on the air for a few moments. Nothing more.

Marie Rutkoski

#34. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.

Jane Austen

#35. Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and her father travelled through, in The Mysteries of Udolpho. But you never read novels, I dare say?" "Why not?" "Because they are not clever enough for you - gentlemen read better books.

Jane Austen