Quotes about Austen

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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, Northanger Abbey
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all. — Jane Austen
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessin — Jane Austen, Emma
It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that uprig — Jane Austen, Emma
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,' I — Michelle Cooper, The FitzOsbornes in Exile
You're my guardian angel, Abbey," she said as she climbed into the car."No, not really, Sam. I'm just a messenger.""But — Emily Ann Benedict, Perception
Angry people are not always wise. — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible. — Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. M — Shannon L. Alder
They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong inclination for cont — Jane Austen
What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me for never — Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
All the privilege I claim for my own sex, is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone. — Jane Austen, Persuasion
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen — Mark Twain
...it is very well worth while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read — Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions — Ralph Waldo Emerson
These were reflections that required some time to soften — but time will do almost every thing…
And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the fam — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. — Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film