Quotes About Northanger Abbey

#1. Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.

JJ Feild

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

Jane Austen

#3. 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

#4. People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

Jane Austen

#5. Such a narrative as this demands some sort of physical consolation for its spiritual tribulation. Our heroine received it in one last cup of tea. The reader may be advised to do so likewise.

Emily C.A. Snyder

#6. Pace doesn't mean speed; it means the right speed. Diagnosis and cure are simple. If you've reached where you want to be in your story too quickly, ask yourself what you've left out. If you've come to a certain point too slowly, ask yourself what kept you so long.

Reginald Hill

#7. What is your personal definition of "good"?
A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power.

Bill Drayton

#8. Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you
can you really be in love with James?

Jane Austen

#9. [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.

Rebecca West

#10. I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.

Chad Hurley

#11. It was so cold outside that a lawyer would have his hands in his own pockets.

James Patterson

#12. Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

Abdul Kalam

#13. Pragmatic conservatism is less idealistic than central conservatism. The goal is to get ahead, to serve your self-interest. The idealistic parts of conservatism are seen as effective means to achieve that goal.

George Lakoff

#14. 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

#15. Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen

#16. What could she have done? She was a heroine, and with that came certain obligations.

Emily C.A. Snyder

#17. 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.

Jane Austen