Austen Quotes

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.

Each of us has a private Austen.

One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.

I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question.

I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.

After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?

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

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.