#austen

Others beside Jane Austen have made their Eltons, though none quite so cooly as she. ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#art

Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as we do of Harriet! And would Miss Bates have been endurable if she had been presented in the mood and manners of Sense and Sensibility? ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#jane-austen #sense-and-sensibility #art

In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women. ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#art

Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character. ↗

— Mary Lascelles

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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#corner #dining #had #i #jane

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#austen #because #books #boring #boring people

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#bach #beethoven #i #jane #jane austen

I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!' 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#cause #cover #crazy #day #did

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, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. ↗

— Mark Twain

#criticism #jerk #reading #writing #want

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#had #infinite #miss #novelist #ordinary