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Jane Austen Quotes about Reading

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen
Book, Reading, House
Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice [The 50 Best Classic Books Ever - # 03]”, p.52, Jane Austen

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Jane Austen
Education, Book, Reading
"Mansfield Park". Volume I,

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

Jane Austen
Reading, Library, Pride And Prejudice Book
Jane Austen (2016). “Jane Austen The Dover Reader”, p.81, Courier Dover Publications

Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.

Jane Austen
Moving, Reading, Voice

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

Jane Austen
Book, Reading, Talking
Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

Jane Austen
Book, Reading, Should
Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger Abbey”, p.24

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

Jane Austen
Reading, Mind, Add
Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.54, Waking Lion Press

it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Jane Austen
Reading, Years, Two
Jane Austen (2015). “Northanger Abbey”, p.79, Cumulus Publishing Limited

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